I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.

Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive.

Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.

Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!