Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret.

You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way.

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.

I think my favorite thing about seasons changing is the opportunity to look different.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.

Love is one of those things that should be so simple. You don't need to think about it and over analyze it when it's good.