I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.

You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.