I never try and force-feed any song idea or lyrical message. It's really what's on my mind and what comes out of me. And a lot of these lyrics are metaphors for specific life situations that I've been through, and in most cases, the struggles. Something about human beings wearing sadness heavily on their sleeve inspires me to make something uplifting about the situation.

I don't know that I can say what exactly love means to me because it would be hard to put that into perspective.

Let's say I'm at a party and I don't like the feeling I'm getting, I'll just leave. Why do I have to be there?

Look, one of the things that I know for sure is that none of us truly knows. That's it. It'll hit you later.

Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It's not really ever been my route.

I like to write pop songs and the stuff I write is fairly poppy, so I thought maybe my lot in life was to write pop songs for people. It never felt right writing songs for other people to sing, though.

You start treating your body right and your immune system is better.