I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

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?

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

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.

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.

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.