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.

I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.

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.

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

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.

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.