Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

When I was performing the songs on 'Kiss Land,' it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There's maybe two choruses on all of 'Kiss Land.'

The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past; you just know what his plans are.

I think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything.

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.