Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out. It's always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.

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 can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

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

I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'

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.

My dad was just the king of finding these little spots for us to stay that we should never have been staying at.