You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

There's a kind of bad that gets so overpowering you can't even talk about it.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

I don't compete with other people in the industry, I compete with myself.

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.

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.

There’s nothing more amazing than the sound of a screaming crowd. Nothing.