“'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.”

“I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!”

“We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet”

“I think that you can love people without it being the great love.”

“But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.”

“The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.”

“A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.”

“Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”