I want to surround myself with the people I care about and that has a lot to do with what love is. It's surrounding yourself with the people you do love and trust, and that kind of thing.

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

I've had the same friends I've always had. I mean, I've lost a few over the years.

My point is I'm kind of an outlier. For whatever reason, the success still blows my mind - that I'm able to talk to people about the music I've written.

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.

In fact, on a side note, after the success of the first record, I got asked to write for some pop artists, as everybody does, and I did a couple songs for some of these massive stars and the review that I got back was, "This artist likes the song but it's too POP-y for them." I was like, "What do you mean, I thought I was writing for a pop star."

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.