There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

I think age is just a stupid number.

I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.

Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.