Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

I love 'Breathe' with Taylor (Swift) but I've been performing 'Lucky' with Jason (MRaz) all over the world in the past year so I'm glad that's what won.

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

Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.

I get inspired by what I go through. Experiencing all these different things we all go through like heartache, falling in love, watching a family member or a friend going through [something], and trying to write about it from a different perspective.

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.

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.