Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.