You need someone who is going to help you make that better version of yourself.

I've just decided that I have to continue to live my life and do what I do. Hopefully, people love me because of who I am, not who I pretend to be.

I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it.

Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship with my mom.

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

I hate jealous guys! Everyone can be jealous. We all have that in us. Push the demon down or it's going to drive the other person away.