Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue.

Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

There's nothing women love more than an effort. You can even mess it up. The shoes that you bought don't have to be right. You might have gotten the wrong chocolates. But she'll know if you made an effort.

I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.

My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.

Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.