I think I always kind of wanted to be a musician but never dared to say it out loud because I never thought it was possible. I wanted to be a teacher, a lawyer, a doctor - I wanted to be a lot of other things growing up.

Feminism has always been a theme that I'm very interested in.

My sister's job does not involve music, but she is an amazing singer and songwriter.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.

We want to start them thinking that they're responsible for their own career.

The only reason I have any success at all in my career is because of the Internet.