I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

I'm really into good nutrition and keeping healthy! That said, I'm also addicted to candy - It's my biggest weakness.

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.

Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away.

My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.

My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

Your life would never have a meaning if you don’t have a goal or purpose

Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.

My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

I didn't dare let my mind wander off.

I want to sell tracks but at the same time I want to stay true to the music I like. This is why I love the underground scene because they can stay true to what they want to do.

The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.

I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that.

The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.