If you believe, work hard, and smile there's nothing you can't accomplish..

Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an ­interview, I'm scared to say who they are. I'm scared to give gratitude to the people that, if….

So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right now?" and I'm like, "Yeah..….

I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in….

My team and I live by 3 words: RELATE. LOVE. INSPIRE.

A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the maj….

I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't..

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen….

My smiles don't result from good things, they result in good things..

Most people go to college to get a job, and here I am sitting in class with a job, making exponentially more than whoever's teaching me, you know wha….

A really large percentage of kids from Duke go to work on Wall Street, and they make a lot of money, but they're almost slaves to their jobs, working….

I think Taylor Swift is a really good artist. I feel like her personality shines through everything she does, her music, her fashion, her style. She ….

Duke is in extremely competitive environment. In my high school, I think I got one B my whole four years. I was used to being the smartest kid in eve….