I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

My parents were strict. They weren't as strict on me as they were with the others, but my mother didn't want us to get on anyone's nerves... Go to someone else's house and drive their parents crazy. Another thing was they didn't want us to get into a lot of things that a lot of kids - if they're not careful - can slip into.