In school if you're different that's uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am...because...you know...I don't really want to change it.

My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together

You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

Love will find you when you least expect it.

I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.