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I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.

As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.

I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.

I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.

Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.

I think for us up-and-coming artists, once you're out there, once you've put stuff up, once people know who you are, once you discover who you are, we're all in the same boat: it's down to whether people appreciate the music or not.