I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.

I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.

I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.