Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.

I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.

That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

The only way an annoyance can bring you down is if you let it.

I'm the furthest thing away from a cop.

I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.

I throw just as hard as ever - it just takes twice as long to get there.