I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you.

If fans come up to me, I talk to them.

Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world - kids who don't want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.

Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.