“'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.”

“Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.”

“A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.”

“What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.”