If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to not do what they were told and then the music suffers because of that dynamic and now there's the power of the download.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then.