I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

I get nervous for everything - literally everything.

I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.

People don't usually compliment your character.

One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.