I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and th….

I don't think there are any songs that I've written in the past that I now disagree. It's kind of like tattoos; I would never regret a tattoo, becaus….

I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better..

I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King and Stevie and "Storytellers." People that could really change the world with their lyric….

If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for m….

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant..

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time..

I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having….

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music..

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue.

Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean..

I couldn't help but feel very different from everybody, so I think that's why I found such a big world in music, and that's why I kind of - I was an ….

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material..

I wanted to find a way to speak for people. It was important for me, because so many people spoke for me when I was a kid and made me feel less invis….

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's ha….

Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter come….

I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' an….

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us….

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work..

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect..

I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest a….