If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet and the mugger ran off into the woods, I thought, 'Thank you for not shooting me.' I was overwhelmingly glad to be alive and unharmed.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.