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I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.

There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.

I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.