“ You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like. ”

“ It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars. ”

“ Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth. ”

“ I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful. ”

“ We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this. ”

“ People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it. ”

“ For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy. ”

“ People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music. ”

“ I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing? ”

“ Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through. ”