"I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me."

"If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times."

"It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product."

"Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.'"

"All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters."

"My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy."

"If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that."

"As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off."