We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something.

I need somebody with staying power who will make me go weak in the knees.

I will love you all my life and when I die I will still love you through eternity and beyond.

People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.

I know myself, and when you start to really know who you are, you don't question it when you read what someone says about you.

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

We live in an epidemic of self-hatred. I see it daily with people coming at me, and they do it to everybody, it's not just me. The hatred is really stemming from them not liking themselves. When you look at it that way, I feel so much empathy and understanding for those people.