I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have.

I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn’t a good idea.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

I like trendy clothes just like everybody else does.

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.