When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.

I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.

I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!' Songwriters' lives are unstable and up and down. Even though mine has sort of has followed more of a going toward the sky trajectory.

I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.