“I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.”

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers – he’s one of my heroes. Al Green, too.

When you commit to being a musician, I don’t think you’re really sure or care about when you’re going to pay the bills.

They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy.

I’m feeling like the music business is reaping what it’s sown. It’s going through what inevitably it was going to go through.

If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it’s okay to have those feelings.

She’s the coolest person in the world…I don’t date what the person does…

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

And that’s when you know. It’s like, oh, my God, game over….

I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you’re born with it.

Doing something that you love regardless when it’s a blockbuster movie or you’re writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is not selling out.

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People always – when you rise, whenever you’re getting to a point where you’re a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren’t going to like you.

I’ve got the moves like Jagger.

That’s not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan. … A lot of people probably did, I don’t know, [but I did not].

Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.

Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.