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.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

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.

If you make people think they're thinking they'll like you, but if you make people actually think, then watch out, you're not going to be popular.

Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

I love creating. I am addicted to the drug of creation and creating things. I get a little depressed when I am struggling to find what I know is locked inside. If it's a lyric or something that is challenging me, I can be very depressed, but when it's like heaven opens up and it gives you a song, it's amazing. There's nothing else that I enjoy more probably.