It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.

I love our country. My dad served in the army. I always grew up with a song sense of belonging as an American. But I was also in the counterculture and I was coming from a place of fearing the police. So I was anti-establishment, but also loving your country. It's kind of an ironic sort of upbringing.

If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

Early on I learned to question everything. But I feel like everything is so divisive right now. Going against the grain would be to not be divisive and be inclusive. That's the disruptive way to go about it.

When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like you. You end up sounding like somebody else. You end up getting what the record company thinks they can market.

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey