Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world.
We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down.
Try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes.
I know that positive energy begets positive energy. I know that when I decide to see the good in something or someone, it's returned to me tenfold.
We have to try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes. We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down. This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone. And if we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.
We are all going through some sort of struggle, so I try to keep that in mind when someone makes me angry. I also know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.
Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world. When I'm not in love with someone, I feel empty and I can't think about anything but trying to find that someone.
I know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.
This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone.
I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.
I want my songs to be heard by everyone.
I try to help other people get through difficult times in their own lives.
I write my songs usually while I'm walking around. Or in a car. Or in a bus, a plane, something like that. I jot down lyrics wherever I am. Usually it's on a vomit bag on an airplane or something. I just look for a pen.
If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.
I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.
I like to express myself creatively and it doesn't matter the medium. Whatever medium I choose at that moment, whatever works the best.
I started writing songs so late and I had so many day jobs - jobs just to pay the bills. So, when I started doing this, I said, "I'm never gonna do anything to corrupt this. Never try to "sell it." Never gonna do anything to make this a job." I can go five months without writing a song. Then something will happen and I'll write six songs in a week.
Ironically, I have been putting out more new music since I left the label. When all the cooks are removed from the kitchen, all of a sudden you just want to cook all the time. There is this really great freedom in having an organic fan base that you built that loves what you do and supports you no matter what. I'm never gonna be superrich. But I'm never gonna be broke either.
I know that positive energy begets positive energy.
If we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.
Love makes me feel vulnerable.
I try to exercise as much as possible and eat healthy. But most importantly, I try to make sure that I'm near people who inspire me to be a better person.
