“You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.”

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I’m learning every day. And that’s the fun part.

Oh every time I close my eyes I see my name in shining lights.

I grew up with so many different songs that the ones that are fun to play are the ones I want to do.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

Expect me to give my all. Thats what I do every time I have a show. Give my all.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.

I don’t like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Treasure, that is what you are.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

I think that success is having fun.

I’m actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it’s a depressing word. I don’t want to hope – I want to know. Like I don’t hope there’s a God, I know there’s a God.

People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.

Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.

As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.

My favourite people to follow on Twitter are… my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling.

I believe that when you have fans, they invest in you not just as a singer but as a person as well. It’s not enough to just have good songs and a good voice.

I’m a huge romantic comedy fan and have been in this business for 17 years and I think for all 17 I’d hoped and dreamed and wished to some day be in a romantic comedy myself.

People are always so surprised when they meet me. Firstly, that I’m ‘so tiny’, and secondly that I’m ‘so sweet’. They seem surprised that they’re not scared of me.