I was raised with a mother who told me that I wouldn't succeed, that I wasn't good enough. Even at the pinnacle of my success, she'd come to a show, and there'd be, like, 10,000 people screaming. And she'd say, "I just don't get it." I think she had so little faith in herself and her abilities as a parent that she couldn't imagine any offspring of hers could do so well. And all that did was drive me to push back. If someone says, "You can't do this," I'm like, "F-ck you! Oh, yes I can, and I will."

You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Your love is just the antidote when nothing else can cure me.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.