“I was a sad kid.”

“My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.”

“You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.”

“I was a sad kid.”

“I'm just myself. That's the best way to put it.”

“There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.”

“I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then.”