"Success and the art of making music are two different things for me."

"I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now."

"My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops."

"Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!"

"Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that."

"It is a profound truth that rise early, act with intent, and let your accomplishments speak with silent authority."

"Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church."

"I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring."