Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

I volunteered at UCLA's occupational therapy ward, where there are lots of kids with autism and emotional problems. I just wanted to prove to myself that I could not break down and cry at everything, and that I could just help somebody else. The one thing I really remember was that when we would take them out of the hospital for a walk around campus, they would freak out the most when we were waiting for the elevator. I remember the guy at the elevator said to himself, "Transitions are the hardest." And I said to myself, "Transitions are always the hardest."

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

When you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself.