I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.
— Bruno Mars
You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.
You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.
It's probably the worst feeling in the world, when you're deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she's not feeling you the same way, and you don't know why.
There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.
Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.
I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.
Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.
If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.
I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.
I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.
When it's your time, it is your time.
