To Be The Best You Must Beat

I Didn't Understand That I Could Sing Until I Was Like 11 Or 12. My Mom Heard Me Singing Around The House And She Said, What Are You Doing? You Really Can Sing! So Then I Started Going To School And Singing To The Girls.

You Start To Live When A Moment Feels Like A Lifetime

It's The Roman Numeral For 10. 5/5/89 Is My Birthday: 5 Plus 5 Is 10, And This Is My Tenth Year Since I Got Into Music. 'x' Is The 24th Letter In The Alphabet, And I Will Turn 24 When This Album Comes Out. 'x' Is Also A Metaphor, As In 'ex-girlfriend': It Implies You're Progressing And Moving On In Life, Not Holding On To The Past And Your Old Ways.

It's Not My Job To Try To Persuade People To Love Me, It's Only To Try To Make Them Love The Music

A Defining Moment In My Life Was My First Actual Vma Performance… That Was The First Time In My Head I Said I Made It. Everybody Knows Who You Are Now. At That Point Everything In My Life Was Flawless… I Was Just Overwhelmed, I Was Happy, I Was Successful As An Artist. I Think I Was In Cruise Control – Like A Little Bit Of Bliss.