Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

It's an incredibly limited sphere those tabloids have, isn't it? Basically, they can accuse people of being gay and they can accuse people of taking drugs, but they can't get any more sensational without entering into the realm of incredibly bad taste.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

I have no doubt that the music I release next will be better.

Freedom. I will not give you up.

[Tabloids] could call you a child molester, I suppose, but they just go for the two things they think people are most likely to believe and that will most offend yourself and your popularity. My skin hardened to all that stuff years ago.

This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.