I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

The only thing pot does for me is it gets me to stop thinking. Sometimes I have a brain that needs to be turned off. Some people are just better high.

I admire this town a lot. They take care of their own. There's not a lot of places in the world, much less America, that do that. It's just a great place.