"I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a..."
"I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson."
"I make music not to make money but because it's in me."
"I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man."
"I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it."
"I run every day. It keeps me sane and it's my meditation."
"Being a big Braves fan, Turner Field would be cool to play a show at."
"When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging."
"Luck has a lot to do with being a musician."
"I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song."
"I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out."
"I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together."
"I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for."
"I feel very lucky that I got to work with Lata Mangeshkar, Asha didi and many more in the 1980s."
"Growing up in the U.S., music became a way for me to find my roots and anchor points."
"In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it."
"I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party."
"I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want."
"Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way."
"I had no father. I had no mother after I was 8."
"The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that."
"People put their voice everywhere. All through Instagram comments. As minuscule and kind of stupid as that is, at the same time, it's dope. People really feel like, 'I have to say something,' which is sometimes a little much, but like, 'Go ahead, man. Speak away.'"
"I don't feel like taking anybody's money."
"Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed."
"The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world."
"All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up."
