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Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

If you listen to most of my songs, the lyrics are pretty kind of dark, but I like to put it behind happy music because then it evens it out... I'm really happy, actually. Obviously I have my bad moments, but I always challenge myself to not put negativity out there because there's already enough.

I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to express what I think people are feeling.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.