“Definitely, it’s hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.”

If I don’t have cereal on the bus, I’m going to be really upset.

Mercy,’ I love conceptually because I feel like you can either think about it as if it were a girl – which it sounds like it could be about a girl – but I like to picture it as ‘pleading for mercy for my career’ type of thing.

My advice to anyone with a dream is to never stop pursuing it.

I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.

I don’t like age barriers. I don’t like when people treat you differently when they find out how old you are.

I don’t really like to say, ‘This is where I’ll be in five years,’ because I truly have no idea.

I’d love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.

I’m kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That’s kind of what I did.

You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it’s timeless. That’s what I want.

I’ve never had a scandal, but I don’t know if that’s so much because I’m perfect, or because people aren’t caring enough yet. Give it some time. I’ll probably be very upset, but it’s a part of the gig.

As soon as I get time, I really wanna dig down and do some acting.

I’m tortured because I care. I’m always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.

My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.

I’m not the best singer in the world; I’m just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.

I’ve always said Moroccan artists are extremely talented, and the world needs to take notice.

Whatever else anyone says he was, he may have been. But Tupac really was a great American artist. The passage of time allows us to see things as they really are: We see the poetry; we see the personality; we see different sides.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The conclusion does not belong to the artist.

When people appreciate my work, that’s satisfying as an artiste.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

I’m a creative guy, artistically with graphics.

Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.