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" I've been compared to Drake before and Kid Cudi. "

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" I look at old performers like James Brown: back in the day when you actually had to work hard to get poppin'. I look at all those types of performers. Even like Kid n' Play and the Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff and Salt-N-Pepa. That era where they had to perform. You couldn't just rap. It had to be an entire performance. "

" I am a pretty bad driver, so when I drive, I need to be calm. I can't be vibing to DMX, all hype, in the car. "

" People should listen to my music if they are into a lot of different genres and kind of want to get it all at once, if they want to listen to a story, an interesting story about somebody else. "

" I wanna make music that helps people. "

" If you can't love yourself, you can't love other people. "

" Imagine if James Brown was your roommate. What? Do you know how much fun you'd be having all the time? Oh my God, he would have you looking the freshest. He would have you doing the funnest stuff for sure, easily. You'd be having the most crackin' parties. "

" 'Beautiful Loser' had a lot of great records. It had a lot of really heartfelt songs on there. But I felt, at the time, it didn't have it's own cohesive sound. "

" I always tried to pride myself on my versatility - I can't just be the 'iSpy' guy. "

" I've been a nerd my whole life. "

" Shooting a music video sometimes can be a job. "

" It's not about being happy 100 percent all the time, cause that's just life. I make sad songs, too, that really only make the happy songs better. "

" I just want to be an artist that makes exactly what he feels. "

" I did have a speech impediment. "

" As I grew up and really - 22, 23, 24 - I was faced with new problems that were bigger. A lot of them were issues that pertained to people that were super close to me. "

" I feel like what's important is to interact with your fans online. Touring is really important to stay connected with your fans. "

" I try to make things as versatile as possible. Usually, you have to listen to one artist for a certain vibe and another artist to catch the next vibe. I want to make an album that has all of that in there. "

" There's nobody taller and cooler than Will Smith. He's the coolest tall person, so I'm trying to be like that. "

" When you're the cool guy, you don't know how to take people not liking you. I've already been there, done that. "

" What is a hit? Who can tell? Who decides what a hit sounds like? I needed to remind myself that a hit is whatever people decide is a hit. I don't make hits; I make music. People make hits. "

" I've always been such an album-driven artist that I never really stopped to think about how cool it would be to just have one really big song. "

" The name 'Light of Mine' came from how the album was conceived and what its purpose was in telling my story. I started making it at a time when I was, more or less, in a darker place than usual. "

" Everybody on my street was broke, running around with no shoes on. We didn't have money, but we played tag, we talked. It was great. "

" When you roast yourself, it makes everybody else comfortable. "

" What's important is that people never give up that fight to be happy, because when you do that, that's when things really start to go wrong. "

" My relationship with my father is fine. Every relationship has its ups and downs because bad things happen in all relationships. But for me, I can only write about what I'm feeling in the moment and something that actually happened to me. "

" I'm a drama kid at heart. That is definitely where my heart and soul is. I did 'Hairspray' in high school - I was Seaweed. "

" If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility. "

" I feel like one of my strengths is writing about stories that are unique to me but somehow relate with everyone, and the one thing I've found is that if you make a song wholly unique to you, then you don't have to compete with everybody, because nobody else can make a song like you. "

" You never know how many people are compassionate about something, especially when it's not happening to you. You just hope somebody's out there helping. "

" For me, I feel like the most important part of music is the storytelling behind it, and that's my favorite; that's what makes my favorite artists my favorite artists, having the story that I relate to the most and that helps me the most. "