Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

I don't even have voice mail, and people get all out of shape about that. But, you know what, I don't want to transcribe your message; I want to talk to you. And that kind of freaks people out a bit. They go, 'Oh, who has time to talk?' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm gonna make time.