My goal in life has been to be a songsmith, not a pop person.
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If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.
Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.
My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.
I thought for a long time that I was going to be a pop artist. It was around 18-19 that I started to make that a reality. I just knew that this was my destiny.
I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.
People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.
I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.
I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.