“You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”

“Don't be afraid of the darkLook insideGrab your heartLet it shineIf it's dark outsideShine your light”

“If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.”

“There's an entry point to any relationship.”

“Romantic love is painful.”

“When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.”

“I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.”

“If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?”

“Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.”

“You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.”

“If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.”