Poo Bear

“My first significant break was when I was 15, going on 16, and my cousin Courtney 'Bear' Sills told me you can make a career out of writing songs. He was the one who put me in with 112. The first song I did with 112 was 'We Can Do It Anywhere.'”

“Back in the Nineties, I was in an R&B group. I signed my first record deal when I was 12.”

“Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay.”

“I see my friends who have superstar lifestyles, and it's great to have hundreds of millions of dollars, but at the same time, it's a sacrifice of your own sanity.”

“Ideally, it would be cool to actually get to know artists enough to know what their feelings are, what they believe in, what they want people to get from them, what they represent.”

“Being genuinely humble and being myself has helped me succeed in my career.”

“I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.”

“Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.”

“I'm trying to stay a song ahead, two songs ahead of everybody else.”

“I've watched songwriters, writers, producers, even artists that I've written hits for come and go. But to the world, it looked like Justin Bieber was my first success.”

“When you wake up every day, it's like a new birthday: it's a new chance to be great again and make great decisions.”

“You can't get tired of something you don't know exists.”

“I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.”

“I don't listen to the radio.”

“I never wanna settle; I never wanna be complacent - I gotta outwork everybody.”

“I had people telling me how much I sucked and how bad my music was, but I didn't allow that to discourage me to the point where I didn't want to do music anymore.”

“I had to go through so much trial and error to get all the whack-ness out of my system as a kid. I think everybody has to do that. You have to go through a period of failing in order to get better at it - whatever you're doing.”