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I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.

I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.

For me, it's never been about being famous. I just want to be a successful singer. I wanna work hard... If I'm in the papers, grace, but I want to be there for the right reasons - for my music.

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.