There's so much good you can do with your voice - always remember that.

If I can help encourage or inspire someone out there who is struggling with some of the same or similar issues as myself, then I think it's worth talking about.

In regards to my artistry, I've learned the importance of being vulnerable.

Even in the sad songs, I want people to know that it won't always be like that.

My advice to anyone wanting to get into the music business, is always be ready to learn and remain humble.

As long as children are still getting kicked out of their homes by parents, getting bullied, commuting suicide, et cetera. it's definitely still worth talking about.

I think my entire songwriting catalog reflects where I was in my life at the time. I capture whatever moment I am experiencing in life.

My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person.

I think my songwriting has developed over the years. As I get older, I have become less afraid to share real experiences.

I always love to support my friends and how they choose to express themselves creatively.

I am extremely grateful for my 'American Idol' experience, and I enjoyed every bit of it.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

What you desire is what you attract to yourself.

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

We like to make sure there is a plot at the center of it and that you care about the people but to poke fun of little things, like the toast restaurant in the pilot.

Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.

Climate change is such a consequential crisis to everybody in the world.

All things proclaim the existence of God.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.