I was slightly cynical of the American mentality before I came over here, but now I preach it. Here, no one's going to tear you down if you buy yourself a $300,000 car. They're likely to say: "Well, you probably worked hard for it. Good luck to you."

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don't want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.

I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.

I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time.... I was born to be a dad.

Sincerity is romantic. I don't think you need gestures.