A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.

As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.

My dad raised me on everything from his music to Stevie Wonder to A Tribe Called Quest. I learned the 'Midnight Marauders' album in and out.

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

If I talk to a new guy, it's because the old guy bores me, and I already wrote a bunch of songs about him.

Fortunately and unfortunately, what I love entails, and makes, a lot of money.

I'm the type of person who really wants to exist and live honestly, to just say what I have to say and be who I am and do what I want.

I've seen people pass away. I've seen how fragile life is.

There's nothing wrong with writing for other artists, but that's just not what my purpose is.

I remember the first time I ever wrote down a song was when I was 6. I was at my friend Emma's house, and we wrote a song called 'Girls' Rules.'