“I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It’s just as hard. It doesn’t get easier, but that’s why I love it: because it’s a challenge every time.”

I was one of those kids who was just always on the Internet, always on YouTube, so it was easy for me to do it. It’s not work. It’s just fun.

I wanted to be an actor, like, so, so bad. I took acting classes, I auditioned for Disney, and then I realized how nervous I got with remembering lines.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

I think it’s not about what you say; it’s about what you don’t say.

With love, there are so many layers to it that you can write all day about it. It’s not just heartbreak or falling in love; there’s so many different ways to look at it.

I’d say the best scents are ones that don’t overtake a room. I love things that remind me of the outdoors and home.

I’ve always been really tall and lanky.

I’m very, very amateur, which is funny because I’m not in the amateur leagues.

I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.

Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.

There’s so much negativity on social media, I don’t want to add to that.

First of all, I’m not gay. Second of all, it shouldn’t make a difference if I was or if I wasn’t.

I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It’s just as hard; it doesn’t get easier, but that’s why I love it: because it’s a challenge every time. I also feel like I’m learning new ways.

I was an average student. I wasn’t any standout. I remember when people started to know who I was and the label offers, people started to get a little weird and be weird around me.

To be honest, I’ve only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.

It was incredible being on tour with Taylor Swift: she was the epitome of a professional, and she works so hard. For someone as successful as her to work that hard every night – truly inspirational.

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

As you step every day and we’re going to see challenges, we going to see failures, we should certainly learn from the failures and be gracious with our successes too as well.

For every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

Be a bit of a challenge; not because you’re playing games but because you realize you’re worth the extra effort.

Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja – in a calm thoughtful way. When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one’s development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one’s ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.