“I thought it would be funny to post a selfie album where every picture is so similar to one another that there is no point in me even posting more than one.”

I do have a lot of music out.

My mom loves music and it poured into my childhood.

I just really enjoy doing it and I’ve always loved making music.

I feel like there’s a lot of pressure on artists to be 100-percent organic all the time.

My mom was a painter and loves to sing behind closed doors.

I just started singing ’cause I had dropped out of school.

We need people who are open to doing something with theme, something with a cartoonish twist.

Its cool that people appreciate fun stuff.

I appreciate people who make hip-hop, the way A Tribe Called Quest and Lauryn Hill and KRS-One did it.

I tried writing a song and it wasn’t very good. I sung it to my mom and she told me it was bad – but I was eight, so it’s okay.

I guess passion keeps me going.

Be whatever you want to be.

We should all learn from our experiences, but I don’t think hatred is the best way to deal with ignorance.

I have a song called ‘Waffles Are Better Than Pancakes.’ If I can’t be goofy, I’ll go insane.

I just like to do the fun stuff. If I’m not having fun with it, I’m not going to do it for the rest of my life.

People can smell when things aren’t genuine.

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop.

There were a lot of songs that I still wanted to put on the album but it worked out. I can only fit 18 [tracks] on the album, I would put 30 if I could.

When I’m picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There’s nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn’t believable coming from them.

I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don’t like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don’t wanna hear happy albums… and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.

My album focuses on unrequited love quite a lot because I don’t think it’s spoken about enough in music. I’ve been through it myself and I found it hard to find songs that were about that, so I’ve definitely tried to make that a part of my album.

It takes a lot of people years to turn a negative into a positive. It takes me, like, an album.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

It’s very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I’m like asking for money for a music video for every song – it’s so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want – and I’ve always worked to make it all connect – for all of it to feel cohesive.