When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

Life is good. Or at least, it's always interesting.

I think that people are having to do like really crazy things to shock people now, to get people's attention and it kind of, it's this way in lots of different aspects of life. You know, people fight for attention. It's competitive. So they need to be the one that stands out.

The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own.

I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.

There's always a silver lining to every cloud and everything has to happen for a reason and if everything's really challenging, then you can make it into a positive.