I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet!

At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute.

It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.

Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.