I started skateboarding when I was 12, and I broke my leg when I was 19 so... seven years.

You can never plan what a song will do. I wrote Mr Pitiful song on a piano I paid $200 for and I definitely got my money's worth.

The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the chaos life has thrown at them.

Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!

hornier than a bunny on ecstasy

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

It was really wonderful playing with Aretha [ Franklin]. I knew that she knew what she was doing, so all I had to do was sit in the background and vamp a little bit.

There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

This is one image. This is one moment. This is one statement. ARTPOP

I didn't come here to be average.