I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

Waiting on the World to Change.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don't, may you have great friends to lean on.