"I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger."

"I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained."

"It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure."

"I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available."

"Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically."

"There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right."

"No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best."

"It is a essential truth that we do not remember the passing of hours, but the resonance of moments."