I love being vulnerable. It's scary. I feel like the best stuff that I have ever written can come from real vulnerable places.

When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out.

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.

I am not an evangelist. I am not a preacher. I am a musician. That is what I know how to do. I know how to write songs. I know how to write things that relate to my heart. I feel that I talk about God in every song, in everything I do - all of it! I really do not know how to respond. I do not relate to that.

Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

Trying to find a heart that's not walking away.