“I’m not a rapper.”

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.

It is the limited identities of race, religion, and nationality that breed conflict and violence.

If You Can Keep Your Identities Aside, Your Mind Will Become Still.

We are so much more than the sum of parts colors staining us bruises of identity.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

Cultural identity; warped and changed. Each of you thinks the other is to blame, It’s created this way, yet we all play a role. We could stop it today if we felt the truth in our souls.

The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

Being home with two babies has been challenging and fun, while trying to carve out an identity for myself beyond it.

We’re all moving into a new digital world where we are going to have little clone versions of ourselves to represent our identity.