I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction.

Yes! I did [grow up on a Christmas Tree farm], so this is a good season for me. I was too young to help with the hauling of the trees up the hills and putting them onto cars. So, it was my job to pull off the preying mantis pods off of the Christmas trees. The problem with that is if you leave them on there, people bring them into their house. I forgot to check one time and they hatched all over these people’s house. And there were hundreds of thousands of them. And they had little kids, and they couldn’t kill of them because that’d be a bad Christmas.

Being "fearless" isn't about being unafraid, it's about being TERRIFIED and still going for it.

I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.