"You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents."

"I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style."

"It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head."

"I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something."

"I love 70's music."

"It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas."

"Beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."