Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.

My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.

At 22, there’s a lot of trying to figure out love, which at the end of the day, I’ve realized I’ll never figure out, though the process of trying is fun.

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.