There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.

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

Life's too short to stay where we are.

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.

Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's pain and that was purely to serve the listener because I knew they needed to hear something. But most of the good stuff comes from my life.

I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time.

Songs really tend to connect.