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When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.

You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.

Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.