I won’t even pretend I didn’t care. I wanted to win. I mean, if you don’t care about winning the competition, why show up?

I give up a personal life... to pursue what I love and make my fans happy.

I learned if you have $100 or $100 million - if you spend more than you have, you’re going to go broke.

Not everyone's going to like my music. People might not like my music, because I'm just not their style of music that they like to listen to.

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

I don't get why my fans call me yummy. I mean I'm not a sandwich!

Why would I give up so much to just be another singer or another person doing what he loves? I'm out here doing everything to the best of my capability to be the best.