My mom was definitely very strict with me.

I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.

Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.

There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.

There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.