It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

I had success early on where I'm able to try to keep it fun, and I don't have to do things just for the sake of making a living, which a lot of my musician friends don't have that luxury of course.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.