Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!