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" I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set. "

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" My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick. "

" When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job. "

" When you have the chance to present yourself vocally, you realize a kind of brand develops around that vocal, and you start to see the public consciousness of you is only about one half of your brain. "

" There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. "

" The best way for me to teach myself an instrument is to just jam on it, and sound awful sometimes, and sound great other times. "

" The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking. "

" All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades. "

" Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music. "

" I'm the world's worst dancer. I have dancephobia. "

" As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair. "

" I definitely break out karaoke when my friends have birthday parties. "

" What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title. "

" I would never put any growl on my voice in concert - it's not the kind of music I sing. "

" It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends. "

" I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool. "

" I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help! "

" I was a shy kid. I was awkward. I was picked on. "

" I did improv in junior high school. Figuring out my comedic timing helped my confidence in talking to the bullies and talking to people in class. If I could make them laugh, then I was in; I was OK. "

" After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible. "

" I think that things like Twitter and the blogosphere are so instantaneously critical that I think it's actually created a bit of a culture of artistic fear to branch out too much because you don't want to be slammed. "

" Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me. "

" Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself. "

" When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.' "