If it's music, I love it.

I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

Before you do anything, whatever it is, figure out who you are first.

Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!

I'm still true to my Southern roots.