Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose bump thing, where the melody or whatever it is just gets you and you don't know why. Sometimes, it's in a genre that you didn't think you liked and, all of a sudden, the song hits you and you just say, wow, I feel the hairs on the back of my neck. I love this song.

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.

If I'm in a relationship, I'll go to the ends of the earth. If I'm on the road and we have a conversation, and she says, "God, I really wish I was there with you right now," I'll hang up the phone, send a car, and have the plane ready.