“'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!”

“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.”

“I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.”

“Individuals score points, but teams win games.”

“It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.”

“The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.”