I never expected to be anybody important.

An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you.

Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

I never faked anything. I never played the Disney game of smiling and being a princess and then suddenly having a hard time, saying, 'That isn't who I really am.'

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.