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 was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?

Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

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