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.

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

When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy too. Not sexy happy but apple pie happy.

Sometimes I remind myself of all the things that make me feel so blessed. And then I remind myself to remind myself more often.

Don't let the romance die, remember one thing that's going right in the sea of things that aren't.

It's funny how you can look back in life and there are all these 'if's' - if this hadn't happened would I have been here? If I hadn't done this would I have ended up talking to you? It's funny how life is seriously just a bunch of those moments.

You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid.