My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and special edition releases, I feel like that's coming back.

Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.