If you like the person, you have to REALLY like the person. You wanna like who they are first, with how they interact with other people, how they are with their family, how they are with their friends, cause that's how they gonna treat you.

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.

Everybody can relate to feeling hopeless, at some point in their life, and everybody can relate to fighting for something that's worth fighting for, and everybody can relate to a person in their life that makes them go, "I don't know why you're here right now," but then, at the end of the day, realizing you'd do anything for them.

I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't.'

It's OK to feel crappy sometimes and it's OK to feel like you don't look like the next person. But what you have to know is that you are beautiful and you are strong and you are worth it. It's important to know that.

When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.