As long as I'm still growing as a musician, it keeps me inspired.

I've got this diverse education, growing up in classical music and existing between that and music that is more visceral, so for sure, I've always been interested in music from other cultures.

I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.

I'm not trying to take over the world, but I find it really rewarding to write, and I thrive on learning.

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it 'Celebrity Life Magazine.' I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco.

I started writing music in a season of my life where people were telling me I wasn't defined by mistakes, and God really loved me and was fighting for me, and there was a journey to be had with that. And I don't know of a more important message.

You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more important than the actual writing of the pilot because you hope it's something that can have a long life.