For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

I just live my life and try to be present.

At 10 o'clock in the morning I'd go right in the studio. It feels good to be there in the morning before the day starts to mess with you - I don't mean in a negative way, but before I'd speak to a lot of people or get into anything, I'd go in there and just see what I felt. A lot happens in the morning for me in the studio.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.