I didn't want to call and schedule shows or call and make people listen to my music. Luckily, my friends and family really stayed on me and made me put myself out there.

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.

I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging.

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

Be happy and comfortable with who you are, whoever it may be.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

I miss everything about you. Can't believe that I still want youAnd after all the things we've been through.

I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far.

Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.

Creating music fulfills me. It gives me purpose. It connects me with the world.

Just be you. That's the best advice I can give. There are seven billion people in this world and there is no one like you.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.

It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.

History is the revelation of Providence.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

The best among all is one who possesses God's love no matter what religion he belongs to.

Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans