I knew at the time my haircut was pretty damn god-awful, so I was just hoping that I wasn't one of the joke ones. And they put me through to Hollywood and I thought, "Well okay, maybe I'm still one of the joke ones but at least I'm not terrible?"

Life has a strange way of working itself out

My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.

Enjoy the experience, don't just experience the experience

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

I always believe that every song tells a story, so the last thing I want to do is edit out like the meat of the story. I would pick songs based off a), whether I felt like I could do anything with them, and b) whether I felt like I could keep the story intact. And then you sit in with one of the piano players and one of the vocal coaches and kind of work out your arrangements that way.

It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do.