If I had to give my younger self some advice, I think it would be that you have to laugh at things-things that scare you, things that intimidate you, things that hurt you, When you're humiliated, when you're rejected, you have to be able to take these bad experiences you have and turn them into a great dinner party joke.

You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.

And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

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

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.