Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

Hope is such a powerful thing. We all have hope for different things, but I think sometimes we need to share our hope with other people. We're sometimes in our own issues, and it isolates us, but when we come together and encourage each other and give a little bit of hope, it can, like it says in the song, go a long way.

Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you.

I would love to do something with Coldplay.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

I hate that feeling of being so full that you feel like you're gonna burst, so I try not to do that.

I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.