You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.'

When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.

Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.

I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what’s difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That’s very tricky.

And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?