Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!

I always knew I was attractive to girls just from the point of view that they liked me.

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

I'm a perfectionist. It's a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.

When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.

Only time will set you free, just like me

Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.