I'm 19 years old. I think I'm doing a pretty good job...Basically from my heart I really just want to say it really should be about to music. It should be about the craft that I'm making. This is not a gimmick and I'm an artist and I should be taken seriously.

My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring.

There were a lot of teen stars that were very cookie-cutter... I'm just being me.

I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, "Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?"

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?

And all the haters I swear, they look so small from up here.

Everybody just tries to be successful. Like, sure, it's good to be successful, but if you're working that hard? This is how I feel, I work so many hours a day, and I'm always working, I'm always traveling.