“First of all, I’m not gay. Second of all, it shouldn’t make a difference if I was or if I wasn’t.”

No matter where you play, a stadium or an arena, when you’re present on stage, it’s going to feel like a theater.

So many of my songs are based on things that either happened to me or to someone I know, but there are also ones where I’ve written a made-up story. All of them are about very real emotions, and I just find different ways to express them.

As I’m growing, so is my music.

I’m all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.

I really love going back home. I think going back to a nice, relaxed little town is the best way to do it.

Being a sex symbol isn’t cool unless you’re in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.

I work out every day.

I’m still a little certain I’m a wizard.

You just have to play it cool. You don’t want everyone to know you’re an amateur.

I give big ups to people who are very big on social media, whether they’re doing vlogs or whatever. It takes a lot of effort.

I think anyone can do anything they dream of if they put their mind to it and put in the work.

Sometimes I get more excited for shows that I know are going to be quieter because it gets me more inspired to be more of a showman and be more of an entertainer and forces me to work harder.

Manuka honey is magic.

I want to graduate high school, so it’s very important to me, and I’ll be focusing hard on that as well.

If I don’t have cereal on the bus, I’m going to be really upset.

Mercy,’ I love conceptually because I feel like you can either think about it as if it were a girl – which it sounds like it could be about a girl – but I like to picture it as ‘pleading for mercy for my career’ type of thing.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people’s lives.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.

It’s our unlimited power to create and love in any circumstance that makes the biggest difference in the quality of our lives.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.