No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

We're not all perfect. People always say to me: "Oh you seem happy all the time." But I'm not happy all the time. I'm a human being. I'm very sensitive. I hurt like anybody else. But I do try my best to have a good attitude and I set about tryin' to take care of myself knowing I'm not going to be exactly right, so I just try to see what I can do to improve every single day.

It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most important thing. It's how I express myself, how I express how I see things. When I see people struggling with emotions and feelings and don't know how to put it down, I'm able to do that. It's really like a therapy, and it's like a buddy and a friend. It's a way out of a lot of things.