I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song, and then figure out who you are as an artist because, once you know how to write a good song, you can dress it in any kind of clothing.

Speak out your mind and your heart, you won’t be bored.

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

I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are still my publishers and are like my musical family, my second family - they took me in and taught me what a good song is.

It’s not about trying to change the world, it’s about trying to not be changed by it

Honestly, if you don’t fit in, then you’re probably doing the right thing.

My hair's actually really thin, but I just throw some hairspray into it and make sure it's been a couple days dirty, and then it goes the direction that you want it, literally!