My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

I love Duolingo. I'm learning Spanish on it, and it's such a good way to pass time on flights or the bus.

I was a trouble teenager. I was uncontrollable, but I haven't done anything that I'm not proud of.

You don't want political acts to become something you just have to do in order to look good.

I have a lot of creative control, so I can decide what I want to wear, what I want my brand to look like, what I want my songs to sound like, so I don't sound like some fake artist that people can't relate to.

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.