Musician

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I? I don't think I'm anything special.

I try to be bad, but nobody will let me.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

I don't want to die.

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

I never really am in awe of people because we are just equal at the end of the day.

As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK.

With everybody that I've met, there's always been something I've learned about them that I like.

I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something I get from my family.

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day.

One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.

As long as you're having fun and still doing stuff, it doesn't matter what other people think.

I try to make myself look as normal as possible because I like people to relate to me.

Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have never found their sound.