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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.