There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

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

When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.