Just being a human being, I’ve realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could’ve just said no.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs.

My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.

All of my songs are autobiographical.