I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.