With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

There are things that two people say in the middle of the night That don't make sense to a third at breakfast.

Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.

If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back.

I want more job. I want to die entertaining.

They didn’t get me, I should have said. They saved me.

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things.