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" I would love for Radiohead to give me a call and say, 'Hey, kid, we wanna see what it's like working with you. We want you to produce our next record.' "

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" It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write a song based on where you're at right at this moment. "

" I don't feel the need to be in the spotlight whatsoever. "

" You need a big team to support a career. "

" I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am. "

" I've had many songs where I've gone, 'Oh, my God, this song is going to be huge!' but it wasn't the right artist, or something just didn't happen. It didn't make the song any worse. It just didn't line up. That does happen. "

" I want to be a producer and not a songwriter. "

" I told my mom I was gay when I was 16, and my mom said with her heavy Brazilian accent, 'OK, but at least look good at it.' "

" People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so. "

" I just love music. I love writing songs. It's not even a job; it's a gift. I'm waiting for someone to kick me out of the party because I snuck in here, and I keep thinking somebody's going to figure out that I have no clue. Turns out that most of them have even less of a clue. "

" One day, it hit me that music is my calling. I just started playing and writing music. How, I don't know. I just started doing it, and then this big voice came out of my mouth. And it felt like I was releasing something. "

" Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It's really hard to see an artist; it's a lot easier to see money. "

" I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own. "

" I don't want to be a rock star. I had my 15 minutes of fame. "

" I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe. "

" I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs. "

" I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that. "

" Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color. "

" I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write. "

" I'm extremely hard to work with. "

" I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different. "

" I'm able to switch gears at any moment. "

" I love being home. I play with my dogs. "

" In no way am I a spiritual person. I'm not some guru geek. "

" My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family. "

" My process of songwriting comes from a very real place: a place that when you watch 'American Idol' - God bless it, it's probably an awesome experience that these people are having, but it's not a real one. "

" I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen. "

" I love just helping people; that's what I'm good at. "

" My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company. "

" There's nothing you could do to me, nothing you could take away from me that would make me feel like I wasn't going to be all right. "

" I'm great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service. "