What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

Don't you love it that Prince doesn't use Twitter? Don't you think he's somewhere on a unicorn?

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.