Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

I think because I'm 6'4" and have blond hair and I didn't dress like any other kind of a boy, people just immediately thought I was some kind of circus animal.

When you're 18 and you've made the album of your dreams, you're not really thinking about the machinery that will actually take it to the public. You just think: "I've done the best thing that I could ever do and this is the most magic moment for me."

Growing up, I never thought about the thing called money.

I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful.

I became slightly disillusioned, but in a really good way that enabled me to realize that the music was the most important thing, and that the rest of it is total bullshit.

How many records you sell really does not matter. It's whatever you give.