I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.

Workin' so hard every night and day and now we get to lay back.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

I work out five days a week, I can't imagine not doing it.

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.

I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I've always made all these excuses. But I've realized that you have to just accept that it was a gift: "I don't know where it came from, I don't know how I did it, but I did write all those songs, and I gotta do it again."