I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.

If you ever think you're the only person in the world feeling a certain way, just please know that you're not.

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.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim [Kardashian] posts it on the internet.

There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.