The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

It's unbelievable to me how sure people can be of themselves.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.

Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.

We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.