I was really influenced by a lot of Disney soundtracks, because that's what I used to watch all the time, and they always put music in it, which is why I tend to have popular melodies over harder beats.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people who are being affected. Not so much the political speak at the top of the food chain, but the people who are affected by it on the ground.

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.