The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.

What we really need to be open to is diversity itself, especially in a business environment. What you want is a plethora of ideas; you want people with different life experience, people with different work experience, people from different cultures to bring something to the table that you otherwise based on your own coming up, you yourself wouldn't have thought of.

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.