Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.

Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.

A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I could make these moments endless If I could stop the winds of change If we just keep our eyes wide open Then everything would stay the same And I know that only time will tell me how We'll carry on without each other So keep me awake for every moment Give us more time to be this way We can't stay like this forever But I can have you next to me today

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

Maybe the gruffness and anger can be done with a purity of sound.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.