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For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

All my songs are different, but from the overall experience, I want people to sense that they can overcome and move through difficult times and find strength in my music. Maybe it's a song that makes them cry and move through something else.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

I struggled with depression when I was in high school, and I remember thinking that if I got a record deal and got a hit song, that it would solve all those problems for me.

I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.