“I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.”

Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

The people who are No. 1 are No. 1 for a reason.

My mom says I’m not allowed to move out, but I’m allowed. I said I have to FaceTime her every night to make dinner with her because I won’t be able to do it myself. So she said she’ll accept it if I do that.

There’s a lot more to success than just singing.

I’m a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.

I’d say some of my earliest scent memories are from home – just things that were around my house, and my mom’s cooking.

I’m always wanting to spread as much positivity as possible, so I really try to keep that the case with my fans and with the campaigns that I do.

There’s nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.

Chance The Rapper is just unreal: he’s changing rap and really creating this whole amazing new style.

I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.

I don’t really look into the past too much.

When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.

I love Milan, and I’m not just saying that. It’s a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can’t explain why, but I feel a special energy there.

I love acting. I would really love to act.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

I ain’t makin’ music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets – that want a street level of entertainment. I’m makin’ music because I have the streets to feed.

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

I guess with the generation we live in, we just want to be entertained at the end of the day. A lot of artists make themselves accessible, so they feel like every artist should be like that. Some artists shouldn’t be so accessible, to me.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats.

Our job, as actors, is not to tell the audience how interesting we are, but to entertain them with our films.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.