"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

"I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts."

"That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be."

"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

"My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner."

"The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again."

"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."