Quotes from Bruno Mars

The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

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.

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.

I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

There will never be another Michael Jackson, a huge pop star since (the age of) 7.

You're amazing, just the way you are.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.

I'm the Nickelodeon version of DangerMouse.

I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.

The confidence Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson exuded from stage, I'm a fan of.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

With my being from Hawaii and being very family oriented I don't really have a fear of a tragic ending. I dont see any tragic ending for me.

So what we go out? Thats how its supposed to be, living young and wild and free.