Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

If you’re convinced as an artist of what you’re doing the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook. Do what you do and people will find its way to it.

I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

Don't worry about what might be...Worry about what is.