It's very important to have a good song - one where you can strip away all the production and just play it on guitar or at the piano. It has to hold its own. That's why I've put videos online with acoustic versions of my songs, so you can hear them in their original form.

You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.

Love each other, even strangers. Nothing in the world matters more.

It's hard to escape when your hobby is your job.

The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes...Writer's block when you doubt yourself and you get insecure.

If you do enough things, you're going to eventually narrow it down to the things that really make you happy.

If you want to explore, go do it. If you want to try different types of art, do it.