I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.

I am kind of majoring in bull shitting.

I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.