Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far.

Be happy and comfortable with who you are, whoever it may be.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

What's really cool is to be able to write music and have people around the world [who are] able to relate to it. They tell you that [your] song helped them get through a divorce or they got married to that song. It makes me want to keep doing that for [myself] and for people.

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.