Start enjoying the things you like about yourself, and if there are things you want to change, either get to work on it or get over it.

Don't let anyone make you feel like you're not good enough, smart enough or cool enough. Do your own thing.

We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.

Things have changed. I almost feel like it's more adaptable, and you can decide your own career now. I feel artists have so much more of a voice and so much more power now. It's really inspiring to see how a lot of the young artists use their platforms.

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea I had was it was going to be really simple, I just want it to be all about the lyrics and I just literally sang the lyrics.

In music industry they always want you to write something like the one that was popular. And that's something you kind of have to just - sometimes you just say yes to people, like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure," and then you just write the one you want to write.