I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

People have to go through what they have to go through. I think in some cases you sort of bring things on yourself and that's what you want it to be than that's the way it is.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.