Life's a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.

I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.

I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook—what I want the track to be about melodically—and then I’ll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.

There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: "Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that." When I'm off I just don't want to hear anything.

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.