Failure and success are part of the same seed. If you don't embrace your failure, you never really know what success is.

Let me create great music, go in the studio, and possibly become a memory and a time stamp in people's lives - and just give the best performances, because I know that's all that really matters.

In the course of my career, which has been an incredible rollercoaster ride, I look at the journey and think it's been immense.

I'm all about the melody.

When I go on stage, there's no way I can do the kind of show I do and not be fit for it. I can't. I want to give everything.

I am not competing to be an athlete. I make music.

You find your personality real quick in school.

Something's wrong with all countries and all voting systems.

Psychologically, when you've been overweight, you want to achieve the polar opposite.

I do about two hours working out in the morning with my trainer. It's like brushing my teeth.

If I can be an advocate for people to get healthy, that's good, and it's not about just needing to go to the gym.

I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it's one of those things where I shouldn't have to reinforce and state, 'No, I'm a heterosexual' - because that's all nonsense.

I feel, in the sense that if you're heterosexual, if you're bisexual, if you're gay, if you're a lesbian, if you're transgender, whatever the vibe is, that's what you represent. I've always found it quite strange that we always like to try and define people and say this is how it is, and this is how it should be.

I think I'd be a very good dad, and I think I'd have a lot of wisdom to share.

With every person you meet, there is a new and exciting experience to be had.

I'm grateful for what I have and the people around me.

When you first come out of the box, you want to play the 300-capacity place, then it's 1,600-capacity, then it's an arena - so, do you want to be in a stadium now? The ego keeps telling you that it's not enough.

I relish performing.

Thankfully, my manager didn't talk me into 'Big Brother' or 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!'

I see some artists who disown songs they love when they don't chart well. Would you do that to your children? Trust me, children ain't gonna do all the right things, so are you gonna disown them or embrace them and say, 'No, you're still my child. You didn't go out and do the right thing, but I'll still love you in the same way?'

Take anything seriously in life, and you set yourself up for peril - trust me.

Don't take social media seriously. Don't buy into the hype.

I've experienced everything any aspiring artist could ever want.

I'm a big fan of Usher, and I'd love for us to record together.