I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.

I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

Shame is the shadow of love.

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

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."

In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like, "Okay, well I want to be a songwriter," 'cause it was like close to Nashville.