YEAH! It's really hard to write heart broken songs when you're happily married

You just keep going. Nothing that isn't beautiful is worth slowing down for.

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.

I praised those who find within themselves their own song to create hope.

If you're doing what you love, then that's what matters. I am happy, and I am happy where I am. If things go downhill, then I move on to the next, and that's what makes me happy.

I don’t know what’s gonna happen in 30 years, and that’s…awesome.

One girl, actually, in the UK — it was a really small show in Wales — a girl came up to me and said that because of one of my songs she was still alive. She’d decided not to commit suicide. It was a really emotional moment.