I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

I like to write about relationships. I like it when my friends come over and we crowd around the piano and sing Journey songs at the top of our lungs... And I like things that make me feel seven again. I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.

The words you'll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid.

People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.