I’ve done well, I’ve been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It’s the music business. You are a business. That’s what they do. So you’ve got to protect yourself.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

...I would be a liar and my fans would hate me if I said to them, 'Oh, we're perfect and everything is great.' We have situations just like everyone else. We're not out in public trying to kill each other, but it's real. We love each other.

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.