“I’ve always tried to be independent. It’s just my personality. I’ve always been the type to motivate the camp. I’ve always wanted to be the fuel for something—for music, the fuel for my family, the fuel for my best friend. Helping someone with what I’m doing.”

I don’t think I could do a reality show, no.

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Everyone thinks their mom is a superhero, and l feel like I want to be just like my mom. A superhero. She’s a very strong lady.

Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.

I don’t know what it feels like not to have a great family support system – I was lucky to have that.

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.

I’d love to go on a safari – I’ve never been on a safari.

When it comes down to the music, it’s just you and the microphone. It’s not you and the record execs.

You can tell an honest artist from one who’s just given all their songs.

When I was a kid, I’d spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.

Women love an honest man.

I’m most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

I’ve always been into looking different.

I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.

Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly

The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.

We make the best phone, we don’t make the most phones.

And it’s true. It’s so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve… I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask. But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.

I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.