I want to be around for a long time, I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I hope I'll be 50 years old and still making music.

College is for finding yourself. I've established who I want to be.

I want to go to Berkeley and major in music.

My style philosophy is: Be comfortable.

I love to dress myself. I have a unique style, but I don't try to do that - I just put on whatever I feel good in that day.

I'm a bargain shopper.

I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.

I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.

[I can't start the day without] checking my cellphone... I love messages!

Can't sleep unless the TV is on.

Even though I am going to miss out on my prom or I am going to miss out on walking across stage to accept my diploma, that's OK to me because I know I will have other perks in life.

A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within.

All your doing is keeping wayward teenage punks off the street. You should leave the real investigative work to us big girls with the pens and paper.

I know that "what´s up" is just something people say, but it´s a very hard thing to say anything back to.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work... the people around you just have to understand.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

My mother is fine. For me it perfection.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.