When you’re young you just run, but you come back to what you need.

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.

The Moment I Knew" "was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever.

If you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people. The fact that there are slide shows of a dozen guys that I either hugged on a red carpet or met for lunch or wrote a song with ... it's just kind of ridiculous.

When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I'm definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story.

We all dream about love, want to be in love, and have been hurt by love.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.