If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment,….

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, ….

I was working with D'Mile - he's amazing! And I don't know, it was like that guitar riff was so crazy to me, and so I think I was frustrated about so….

I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, "Oh, okay, you should be an artist," you know 'cau….

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love..

I was like just writing and writing and then I kinda developed my sound. And then, my managers were like, "Okay, we're gonna try to get a deal." And ….

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses..

I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career wh….

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you..

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music..

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels..

I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a wonderful sensation to not have any clothes ….

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical..

When I'm writing for rappers it's kinda like switching, "Okay, you're not PJ. Now you have to act like a rapper.".

And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people….

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing,….

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do..

I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after….

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as….

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to....

Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film….