To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I'm not just writing to impress critics or young girls, or older girls. The way I talk is the way I write a song.

I watch the best. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I'm a big fan of 1950s Elvis when he would go on stage and scare people because he was a force and girls would go nuts! You can say the same thing for Prince or The Police. It's just guys who know that people are here to see a show, so I watch those guys and I love studying them because I'm a fan.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.