If you're lucky enough to have something that makes you different, don't ever change.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly, or at medium speed. I either do or I don’t.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions.

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.

Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying 'I could've, but it's too late now.'

I can't promise you that you'll ever live in a world where people don't hurt your feelings. But I can promise you that if you keep on moving and taking one day at a time, the opinions and words of people who hurt you will matter less and less to you.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.