I've been collaborating a lot, because I like working that way. It's fun and keeps you moving forward.

I never felt like I was forced to do anything.

I've always been singing and making noise. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid. My mom would get very frustrated with me because I would just sit around and make noises.

I think it's very easy to get self-conscious and stuck when you're doing everything on your own.

I never learned to play properly either, I was a little bit too lazy for that, but as long I could express myself in a way that had sound, I was happy.

You get a lot of fame, but haven't created anything musically.

I really do know what I want with my life. I think that keeps me from making bad decisions and spending time doing stuff I don't enjoy.

I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.

I took some time away from the music industry. I've been doing this since I was 16 and needed some time to get to know myself as a grown-up.

The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

I have quite a broad taste in music.

Letting go seems like the most powerful thing I could do.And so I do.I just let it all go.And it feels glorious.

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

Remember that your attitude towards life determines life’s attitude toward you. At any moment, you can choose to change everything for the better.

Champions don't give up

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

Love is a tyrant, resisted.