The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.

I enjoy changing I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time.

I am not an evangelist. I am not a preacher. I am a musician. That is what I know how to do. I know how to write songs. I know how to write things that relate to my heart. I feel that I talk about God in every song, in everything I do - all of it! I really do not know how to respond. I do not relate to that.

If you make people think they're thinking they'll like you, but if you make people actually think, then watch out, you're not going to be popular.

Trying to find a heart that's not walking away.

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.

Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's pain and that was purely to serve the listener because I knew they needed to hear something. But most of the good stuff comes from my life.

I love creating moments that feel bigger than just like an artist on stage.

Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.

I love being vulnerable. It's scary. I feel like the best stuff that I have ever written can come from real vulnerable places.

I never play all new stuff, because you got to dance with the girl that brought you what is that saying? You got to play the songs that got you there, so I love playing the songs from my very first record.

Life's too short to stay where we are.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.