If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

The people at the label were great but at the end of the day our visions didn't match up and I knew I had to do it my way. The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made. It was a hard decision to make, but I've never regretted it for a second and it's only become more clear to me after making and releasing Stairwells that it was the right one.

However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was something I had a growing need for in my life, and that was about when I adopted the neglected guitar I found under our piano and started singing about all the things I could never say.

Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away.