Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household.

My goal really was to make pop music feel as human as possible.

I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.

It's really easy to go viral, but I think it's really hard then to have a career.

I don't have actors as friends. There's no actor who's my 3 A.M. friend. There are a couple of musicians whom I can call friends, and I have a close knit group of friends whom I feel comfortable with.

I think we've all been in relationships - whether they're romantic relationships or not - where there are things that you excuse because you want it to work, because you are hopeful, because you've invested in this relationship, and you might not otherwise let them fly, but you're being optimistic.

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.

Walmart and other big-boxers could become the center of gravity for the conservation of goods, employ people with actual know-how, and develop deeper, longer term, more profitable relationships with their customers.