God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

Everything that I make I use.

When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's a self-indulgent exercise. It's the way I make my music. And when I'm acting, I get to leave myself behind, which is a relief. I get to collaborate with a director; I respect the director's medium and all the actors and actresses. So at the end of the day, it's about a character and it's about a director's vision. It's a really good balance for being so intense and alone in my personal process of making music.

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.