"I'm not a nervous guy, because I don't think too far ahead. Fear is just thinking about what's going to happen next, right? So if you're not thinking, you can't be scared of anything."
"I think space and music go hand in hand in the sense that they give a little more mystery and magic to life."
"I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old."
"My fans know me too well."
"I like to meet girls in real life because social media is such a front, and you can come across and look however you want."
"My sound is a mix between pop, hip-hop, and R&B. It's a good collaborative effort of all three."
"A lot of my career is mental, and I just have so much perspective from being raised in a city like Detroit and being able to come and live the life that I do now. To see that broad of a spectrum is really helpful for relating to people and feeling them."
"I'd like to produce something with Kanye. Like, my production plus his, I think he'd make something really cool."
"I think the best thing is having a voice and being able to give people a different perspective and a different opinion and voice my emotions and how I feel. To be heard by people, it feels good."
"I was the biggest class clown. I loved attention."
"Growing up, I wanted straight hair so bad, like Justin Bieber."
"No one wants the picture-perfect song anymore. I'm trying to keep the beautiful qualities of pop - nostalgia, melodies, and the feeling that a beautiful pop song can give you - but make it real. It's not polished."
"My mind has always been like, 'You're a star! You're in it! You're killing it!'"
"If you think you're something long enough, eventually, you just turn into it."
"I'm obsessed with being able to dictate energy in a room."
"To finally have people receive and hear what I'm saying is one of the most gratifying feelings an artist can ever have."
"I remember feeling the energy of people. That stuck with me. Understanding that I could stand behind a mic and captivate people. I was always obsessed with that."
"At 10 years old, I was in my church band, playing in front of a couple thousand people every week."
"I've always been an entertainer. It's in my blood, in the sense that I've always loved doing it."
"I make songs that I genuinely enjoy and love, and just put them out kind of freely and carelessly."
"I set out and I said I wanted to just release music, and I don't care how many people heard it at first. And I just wanted to put records out. I knew that."
"My iPhone background says, 'If you build it, they'll come.' You know, quality over quantity. And I really live by that."
"The album is always definitely the goal, because I think that albums are like captures and bookmarks. After five or six of them, you can always go back and be like, 'Well, what was his first?'... I think an album really gives you a chance to make people feel something."
"'Beautiful' is a freestyle, actually. I actually made 'Beautiful' being like, 'I just want something to post on Instagram, like, I don't care, I'm just gonna throw something up today.'"
"I went to the studio, and I freestyled 'Beautiful' in, like, an hour and a half, and I threw it up, and people were like, 'This song's gonna change your life.'"
