It's very fun to be single, because you know what happens? You find yourself. You understand what it means to love yourself, instead of putting all this energy into give-and-tug in a relationship.

Like my little sister and brother, I always play them my music because I want people like them to be able to relate to my music. They always know what's going on; they're up on what's new. For me, when they hear my music and they like it, I'm on the right track.

The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him.

I would love to direct videos and that's what it keeps moving towards, but I have to stop being scared in order to do that.

You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart.

Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing.

I definitely, at times, felt the pressures of life similar to the pressures anyone would feel growing up. The only difference was that maybe more people were aware of mine. But, if anything, I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win.