My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

When I'm writing music, I'm not acting it out - it's all me. I feel that my responsibility is to be truthful about myself, first and foremost. I'm not going to sing things I don't believe in no matter who is benefitting from it.

Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.

I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.

I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.