Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.

On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.