“My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.”

I am an artist who’s just tryin’ to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody’s opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.

I’m a free agent so I’m probably gonna be signing a major deal that I’m gonna be announcing pretty soon, and a few good singles are coming out.

So for [Alexander Wang] to actually put me in a campaign, I was really honored. I’m excited to see how it comes out because I didn’t look at the photos on set; I like to just live in the moment and do what I do and let him and his people put their touch on it.

I like comfortable clothes. Most men in the world wear T-shirts every day and jeans. I wanted to always put my street style to the high fashion looks and just make it comfortable and make it look stylish.

The more real you get, the more unreal things get.

I’m a beast when it comes to anything. I believe in givin’ one-hundred-ten percent, anything I do.

God will never send anything your way you couldn’t handle.

You can do nice things for people all of the time and it’s never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it’s never forgotten.

I’m happy that I’m learning and a lot of these fashion houses are willing to collaborate. I just want to put my swag to what they’re doing, because I like street style.

Personal life doesn’t affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

We can admire what we see, but we can only love what we truly know.

I never regret my past. Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.

Instead of wiping away your tears, wipe the people who make you cry.

Some people think it’s wrong, being single isn’t right. But if you hurt the right person, you’ll be wrong all your life.

At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music ’cause it’s my music. If you don’t like it, don’t click on it, don’t download it.

I’m focused on what I’m doing and nothing can stop that.

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.

Life begins when we decide it’s going to begin for us.

A strong beginning is a good thing only when coupled with a strong finish.

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.

In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a milestone in my life because it began actually with ‘Devdas’.

Choosing to unconditionally love, I begin a new karmic account.

Once the races begin it’s more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.