“Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.”

I’m still a little certain I’m a wizard.

You just have to play it cool. You don’t want everyone to know you’re an amateur.

I give big ups to people who are very big on social media, whether they’re doing vlogs or whatever. It takes a lot of effort.

I think anyone can do anything they dream of if they put their mind to it and put in the work.

Sometimes I get more excited for shows that I know are going to be quieter because it gets me more inspired to be more of a showman and be more of an entertainer and forces me to work harder.

Manuka honey is magic.

I want to graduate high school, so it’s very important to me, and I’ll be focusing hard on that as well.

If I don’t have cereal on the bus, I’m going to be really upset.

Mercy,’ I love conceptually because I feel like you can either think about it as if it were a girl – which it sounds like it could be about a girl – but I like to picture it as ‘pleading for mercy for my career’ type of thing.

My advice to anyone with a dream is to never stop pursuing it.

I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.

I don’t like age barriers. I don’t like when people treat you differently when they find out how old you are.

I don’t really like to say, ‘This is where I’ll be in five years,’ because I truly have no idea.

I’d love to work with Bruno Mars and Ryan Tedder.

I’m kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That’s kind of what I did.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

A second chance doesn’t mean anything if you haven’t learned from your first mistake.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

I learned more than I cared to discover.