For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

The older I get, the more I realize I'm becoming people's role models and that's freaky to me. That's not what you intend to do when you set out to be a musician, to be a little 14-year-old's role model.

What you see online isn't real. How many likes you get on Instagram doesn't have any bearing on how good of a person you are, how good your heart is. It's all for fun; it shouldn't affect you so deeply.

It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.

Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar

Kids can be cruel enough as it is, but cyber bullying or you're on Instagram and see your friends are all somewhere and you're not there. Then it's like, "Why am I not there?" Girls are using apps to change the way their faces look so the look quote-unquote perfect and beautiful. I feel like kids these days, it's gotta be just a big ball of anxiety.

Everybody, everybody wants to be loved