I remember seeing this image of these women wearing these bright clothes and patterns, and it struck me. I remember taking note and going, like, "What is that? Who is that?" and finding out it was Gucci and being surprised.

I never think people are cheeering for us. In fact, i don’t really hear them at all.

I win and succeed only 'cause I fail so much. I fail all the time. I wrote 70 songs just to have 12 good ones. For the video I shot 60 hours of footage. 60 hours! To come up with an 8 minute video. So really I only win 'cause I fail.

I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother.

Sometimes you fall in love with a song 'cause it's new, it's exciting and you just birthed it. Then you fall out of love sometimes. But the strongest songs always survive and you come back and you fall in love all over again.

Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music!

I just think it's really important to be yourself and not trying to be something you're not.