“I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.”

It won’t be long before she falls out of love.

I want to be remembered as iconic and different.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

It’s almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

I’m always getting high cuz my confidence low.

Look at all that money. The money is the motive.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

Don’t show the world how alone you’ve become.

Nothing compares to the emptiness we both share.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

For a dreamer, nights the only time of day.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

We’ll find our love in the sky.

House of Balloons’ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn’t have a unique perspective.

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop – nobody cares!

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

It’s weird, because the ideas in my songs aren’t controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that’s about all that’s required.

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

I don’t really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I’m like an old person.