I really like my life right now. I have friends around me all the time. I’ve started painting more. I’ve been working out a lot. I’ve started to really take pride in being strong. I love the album I made. I love that I moved to New York. So in terms of being happy, I’ve never been closer to that.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine

Maybe you won't find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will.

I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.