I have loved music since I was a little kid. I was always wanted to write the music I hear in my head and have it be shared with the world.

My idols were Michael Jackson and The Beatles and I would watch Justin Timberlake and John Mayer perform and I knew I wanted to do what they were doing!

I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing about.

When I am excited about a song I want to release it rather than wait to build up an album.

I know as a fan of music I want my favorite artists to give me as much content and music as possible , so that is what I am trying to do.

It is nice to travel the world and sell records and meet fans and that is so much fun. But I want to always remember that music can heal and it can make someone's day.

Sometimes there are those that have been dealt a bad hand at life and are dealing with some heavy issues. The least I can do is try to brighten a persons day.

Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.

Today’s experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future.

May you tear each other to bits, you damned hyenas, and the quicker the better. Let it be destroyed. Let it happen. Let it end, this cold insanity.

A free nation of good willed and hardworking people will be better developed than a nation of lazy people with good will but are bound

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.