When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.

I've been through a lot of ups and downs. I've been on both sides of it all, I guess. So there's not one specific event or thought that I'm dealing with or drawing from necessarily.

I've had the same core group of friends that I've always had. We're surfing, so that definitely keeps you grounded.

Some people are more affected by, I hate to use the word "success," but I don't know what else to say, but some people are more affected by that than others.

The world's pretty trippy. I just like to travel around and see what's out there.

Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the ringer.

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.