I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I think on the first album, my aim was to write a good song and have a good melody, and I wanted lyrics that would connect with as many people as possible. On the second album, I took a lot more of a personal approach. I wasn't trying to make conventional, structured songs; I was really trying to get a lot of emotion and my own personal journey throughout it. I just focused more on being honest than getting the normal song structure down.

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.