Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned, because I listen to everything.

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

I'm completely removed from any hype that comes my way.

I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the melody than it wasn't worth remembering. So it's my way to test myself in the studio. When I was a kid I could sing pretty well so melody always made a lot of sense to me.

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.