The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.

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.

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.

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.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.

We were not placed on an empty island for a reason, we were placed into communities to BUILD RELATIONSHIPS and Help ONE ANOTHER!

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.