I've never spoken to Bon Iver, but I would love to. I'm a huge fan!

The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind. There are also certain musicians I love whose music and styles inspire me.

I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.

It's just me and I try to be myself when I'm singing.

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

I get really nervous right before I go on stage. But once I'm performing, I always love it. It's like being in a different world.

My town's quite small and you kinda recognize everyone when you see them, so I definitely get funny looks from people.

I read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game.

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

With soap baptism is a good thing.

The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

I don't know what the NFL's going to look like in 15 years. Who knows. It's a great game; it's done a lot for me in my life.

Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

Sometimes people forget their own greatness.

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.