The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

Fame is a very strange animal.

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

My first album was completed in three months.

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.

I just talk a lot, that's the problem.