I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music.

Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.

At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

We find ourselves in that situation where we want to believe, we want to think we're the exception, we want to think we can change someone or tame a lion or make a bad guy good or something like that but 9 times out of 10 we end up looking back going, "Oh, shame on me, should've seen that one coming!"

When you strategize a relationship too much, like, "We're not gonna be public about it, and we're gonna say this in interviews," when you think it all out, I think that complicates the relationship and I think that's unfair for the relationship.