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Even through 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League,' I have yet to have that instant recognition and at such an early stage, where people totally didn't know my name, but they knew my face immediately.

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown.

A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.

I'm not hiding who I am anymore - not pretending I'm something I'm not.

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.