My MOM is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we LIVED in Brazil when I was a KID for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a LOT.

As a kid, I DREAMED of playing in a WARM LAND with a SWIMMING pool.

I wasn't the kind of KID who would GET A's without even trying. I had to WORK to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do WELL at everything I did. I'm very COMPETITIVE.

I need to just give - EVERYTHING that I do, every SINGLE day - my all. I just need to. Life is short. We have one life to live. And I need to be ABLE to PUSH for my KID.

When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could EVER afford all the ice cream I want to EAT, that's as RICH as I ever want to be.'

I LOOK at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A WORLD SUPERSTAR, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just PLAYS.

Hanging out is a waste of TIME. The only time I WOULD hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I STARTED making RECORDS, I stopped hanging out.

You can't afford to hop around and ACT like a kid when you have to GET back on defense and worry about the other PARTS of the game. But at the end, when the buzzer SOUNDS, you have the luxury of hopping around and looking foolish for a while.

I was a SHY KID but also very MISCHIEVOUS. Because I looked SUPER innocent, no one COULD really call me out on my pranks.

When I was a kid, MONSTERS MADE me feel that I could FIT somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary PLACE where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and ACCEPTED.

I WANTED to be a snowplow driver when I was a KID. GROWING up in the Rocky Mountains, that's the most glorious JOB you can imagine. But then my MOTHER took me to a lecture about the solar system when I was 8, and I got hooked.

I was once that KID that needed a DONATION - that needed help to go to CAMP because my mom wasn't ABLE to pay for it.

When I was a KID, my MOTHER told me that if you COULD not be a GOOD loser, then there's no way you could be a good WINNER.

I REALLY didn't WANT to RAP; I was just a REGULAR KID.

We had South AFRICAN ACCENTS. I was a VEGAN. I was raised without religion. I was just the weirdest kid in this SMALL town, so I got made FUN of a lot for it.