I feel like I'm being put inside a box, and I'm not necessarily getting a chance. Like I'm not getting the shot that I deserve. So that's what Rare is about 'cause I feel because I am the way that I am, and I don't necessarily fit the mold of a lot of different artists that's out, it's like I'm not getting the chance to show what I can do. So, that's basically all the frustration of that, and everything is pretty much Rare for me anyway.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.

I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, "Okay, I want to do that."

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

Never settle for anything less than you want.