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" Toronto is my favourite city in the world. "

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" Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them. "

" I don't listen to the radio. "

" I've never stopped writing, I've never slowed down just because I don't have something on the radio or a No. 1 or No. 2 record. That doesn't mean that I'm not in the studio planting seeds. "

" I don't know about the rest of the world, but America loves redemption. They love giving people second chances. "

" I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes. "

" I never wanna settle; I never wanna be complacent - I gotta outwork everybody. "

" I'm like this ghost - you look around, and all you see is the artist. But if you look at the credits, it's still Poo Bear. "

" It's cool to have a big record, but it's even cooler for the world to love it and sing along to it in every club word-for-word. It's a real feeling. "

" People didn't know that I existed before 'Purpose.' "

" Most writer's blocks come from people second-guessing to the point where they get discouraged, and they just quit. For me, if I write something and it's not amazing, I don't care because even if I feel like it might not be amazing, it could still be a number-one hit. "

" People love music, but they also love the lifestyle and glam that comes along with it. "

" Back in the Nineties, I was in an R&B group. I signed my first record deal when I was 12. "

" I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs. But I want to be the guy that presents new music from both new artists and established artists at the same time. "

" Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay. "

" Being genuinely humble and being myself has helped me succeed in my career. "

" I had people telling me how much I sucked and how bad my music was, but I didn't allow that to discourage me to the point where I didn't want to do music anymore. "

" As a songwriter, I got used to being in the background. "

" It's cool to be recognized, but it's not something that I was seeking or sought after. I never wanted to be famous. "

" You can't get tired of something you don't know exists. "

" I had to go through so much trial and error to get all the whack-ness out of my system as a kid. I think everybody has to do that. You have to go through a period of failing in order to get better at it - whatever you're doing. "

" People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I'm just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything. "

" Ideally, it would be cool to actually get to know artists enough to know what their feelings are, what they believe in, what they want people to get from them, what they represent. "

" For me, what makes a dope concept is it's a fresh idea, something that I've never heard before. "

" I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do. "

" Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people. "

" My first significant break was when I was 15, going on 16, and my cousin Courtney 'Bear' Sills told me you can make a career out of writing songs. He was the one who put me in with 112. The first song I did with 112 was 'We Can Do It Anywhere.' "

" I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit. "

" I see my friends who have superstar lifestyles, and it's great to have hundreds of millions of dollars, but at the same time, it's a sacrifice of your own sanity. "

" I'm trying to stay a song ahead, two songs ahead of everybody else. "

" When you wake up every day, it's like a new birthday: it's a new chance to be great again and make great decisions. "