I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.

I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

I'm inspired by almost every artist I come across.

Everyone who wears glasses (onstage) eventually takes them off. It becomes part of the evolution. It was actually kind of a battle for me to keep my glasses.

When you're a kid and you go to Disneyland or Disneyworld and you're so pumped and then you go when you're grown up and it's not as much fun as you remember it.

You can't just mess with somebody's prescription, and I really like wearing glasses. It's my eyesight and I don't want to mess with that.

If I wanted to make a record to represent myself, I wouldn't put any (covers on it).

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.

You're always you, with your own insecurities.

... every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.

I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

There is no place to go and no one to be.

The word "influence" means the power to change or affect someone.

With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.

I believe in soulmates, especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.