I would love to do a record with Usher.

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

Conversation without you trying to be sexy can still come off as very sexy. Trust me!

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.

I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.

Honestly, I think dating is hard. Period.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point.

One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.

Canadians are so easily wounded.