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

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.

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

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.

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.

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.

Life's too short to stay where we are.