The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.