"I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things."

"I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids."

"People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices."

"The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this."

"If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only."

"Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion."

"I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling."

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."