Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

I actually quit music and I thought maybe I chose the wrong career. But, I isolated myself in a cabin in the woods for a while and that's where I fell back in love with music. Just being isolated out there, eliminating all these opinions that I endured during my time in LA and the music industry, all the rejection, it was really hard on me and my creativity. So by isolating myself in the wilderness, I was able to fall back in love with music. It was always ingrained in me, always in my blood, but I just lost it for a minute.

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.