My advice to anyone with a dream is to never stop pursuing it.
You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.
I think anyone can do anything they dream of if they put their mind to it and put in the work.
I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
I was one of those kids who was just always on the Internet, always on YouTube, so it was easy for me to do it. It's not work. It's just fun.
Love is probably the strongest emotion that you can feel. It's very natural - and I wouldn't want to say easy - but natural and comfortable to write about, and there's so many different forms of it, millions of layers - you could write forever about it.
I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.
People say to me, 'What are you going to be doing in five years?' The thing is, I don't care! It's what I'm doing today that matters.
Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.
If I don't have cereal on the bus, I'm going to be really upset.
Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city.
'Mercy,' I love conceptually because I feel like you can either think about it as if it were a girl - which it sounds like it could be about a girl - but I like to picture it as 'pleading for mercy for my career' type of thing.
I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.
You have to be careful not to make music something you don't want to do. Which happens. I've gotten off the road and been like, 'I hate it. I hate singing, I hate playing guitar.' Six days later, I'm in my bedroom singing at the top of my lungs because I love it so much.
You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.
I've always been really tall and lanky.
When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept at it and ignored that.
I'm proud to say I'm a role model for kids.
I can't believe how fast things have happened, and I'm just so honored that people are able to look to me as a leader.
I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard; it doesn't get easier, but that's why I love it: because it's a challenge every time. I also feel like I'm learning new ways.
