Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

In the end, I find my influences or inspirations where I can.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

My mum and my dad they both like to sing they have really nice voices and my sister and my brother actually they are good singers too. I've been really blessed actually more than most to have a really good people around me.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.