If I tell you purple look good on you, and you ain't never wore purple, your favorite colors are red and green, and you're like, No man, these my colors. You won't know purple is your color until you try it on.

I've just got to keep a balanced head and stay focused.

No teacher ever skipped the student process... if you want to be a leader, you have to be a follower first.

I love the grind. Gucci taught me to never stop working.

A lot of people have trouble putting into words what my music is, and it's because of where I grew up.

I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.

I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.

It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing.

I consider myself a lyrics guy.

I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself.

Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge.

I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to.

I was trying to maintain a facade of infallibility, which is exhausting. Like, I used to wear tons of makeup because I had bad skin. I couldn't go out in public without makeup on.

My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.'

I think that's what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every word that's on my album, and every word comes from a real experience or a real feeling that I've either experienced or felt. And I'm very particular about that, and I take a lot of pride in it, so you know if I say something on a song, I mean it.

I had an initial wave of popularity that, in time, crashed, and I slowly became less popular and less successful, and I had to figure out who I was without those things.

I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.

It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.

I always wanted everyone to love me, probably because I didn't love myself enough. But now I realize that when you're an artist, you're making the music that's in your head and in your heart, and not for any other reason.

There was a time when being loaded and loved and popular really mattered a lot to me. I'd say that when I was less popular, I learned to be happy without those things.

Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time.

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often.