A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

I keep one eye on the path I didn't choose every day.

My parents moved across the country so I could pursue a dream.

If you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people. The fact that there are slide shows of a dozen guys that I either hugged on a red carpet or met for lunch or wrote a song with ... it's just kind of ridiculous.