The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

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.

I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

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