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

I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.

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 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.

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

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