Toronto is my favourite city in the world.
People love music, but they also love the lifestyle and glam that comes along with it.
I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit.
I've never stopped writing, I've never slowed down just because I don't have something on the radio or a No. 1 or No. 2 record. That doesn't mean that I'm not in the studio planting seeds.
You can't get tired of something you don't know exists.
I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.
Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.
It's cool to have a big record, but it's even cooler for the world to love it and sing along to it in every club word-for-word. It's a real feeling.
I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs. But I want to be the guy that presents new music from both new artists and established artists at the same time.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but America loves redemption. They love giving people second chances.
I had people telling me how much I sucked and how bad my music was, but I didn't allow that to discourage me to the point where I didn't want to do music anymore.
Back in the Nineties, I was in an R&B group. I signed my first record deal when I was 12.
I never wanna settle; I never wanna be complacent - I gotta outwork everybody.
Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay.
I'm trying to stay a song ahead, two songs ahead of everybody else.
People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I'm just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything.
People didn't know that I existed before 'Purpose.'
