I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

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

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.