People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

When you strategize a relationship too much, like, "We're not gonna be public about it, and we're gonna say this in interviews," when you think it all out, I think that complicates the relationship and I think that's unfair for the relationship.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

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