"The best thing about Selena is that, when she’s being nice, it’s not an act at all. She’s really being genuine, that’s why I like her so much. It’s just that she’s a really good friend to me. I care a lot about that girl. She was really mistreated in the past and now I’m out spreading the good word." - Heat Magazine
"I talk about it with her all the time because I don’t understand how people are fascinated with her when they don’t even know her and she gets upset by it sometimes. She told me never to talk to the paparazzi, don’t fuel the fire and to just kill them with kindness, I think that’s the name of one of her songs, actually." - The Independent.
"I met Selena at an after party after the MTV Video Music Awards and we were talking about something and in the back of my head, I was thinking, ‘I’d like to do a song with her some day’. She has a really cool voice and I think our voices complement each other really well. I didn’t think this was going to be the song for her, or for me. As for lyrical sentiment, I think it fits so well for her to be on [the song] because everyone knows what she went through. And I think everyone’s had those relationships where you’re obsessed with that one person, but then you break it up peacefully, but it’s changed. You can’t talk to them like friends anymore. You can say you want to remember friends, but it’s easier said than done. It’s heartbreaking. ‘We Don’t Talk Anymore’ is basically the conversation a month after that type of breakup."
