I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

You kind of half-prepare a speech in your head, and then you get up there and then you end up saying nothing that was in your head before you went up there. It's a very weird thing. I never do award speeches too well.

I know you'll never love me like you used to.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.

If love what you can't have, then you have to love what you've got

I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.