When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.