When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.

There are a lot of people who talk about a formula for being able to start a fan base. But for me, it's been about songs and just being hard on myself as a writer, feeling like there is a purpose to it all.

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.

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.

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.

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.