People say, "I can't take you seriously because you're so young." But I think when you're young, what you feel is more pure.

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

You have to invest something [in your work]. If you don't risk something that really matters to you - like your integrity, or your pride, or your time, or your security, or your reputation - if you don't risk yourself, you can hear it right away.

People say, "I can't take you seriously because you're so young." But I think when you're young, what you feel is more pure.

The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends.