I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

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

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

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 don't know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like - the reason why I called the album "Our Version of Events" was that I feel a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture.

Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It's so important.

I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.