I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

I volunteered at UCLA's occupational therapy ward, where there are lots of kids with autism and emotional problems. I just wanted to prove to myself that I could not break down and cry at everything, and that I could just help somebody else. The one thing I really remember was that when we would take them out of the hospital for a walk around campus, they would freak out the most when we were waiting for the elevator. I remember the guy at the elevator said to himself, "Transitions are the hardest." And I said to myself, "Transitions are always the hardest."

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.