I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

Be yourself and the right people will love you.

But I say to Apple with all due respect, we don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.

You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.

Be friends first when you're dating. If it turns into something more, that's awesome, and if not you have another friend.