When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.

I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.

People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.

It's usually kids that normally don't have a chance to get to meet each other because they're separated by millions of different things.

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

I want to live the way I choose. It's all about happiness. I'm a happy person. But to find true happiness, peace within yourself and the world, that is something achieved in the moment. No matter the circumstance.

Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.