Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It’s like a payoff.
In finding love, I think it’s important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it’s important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.
The first video I ever made, announcing ‘Crash the Super Bowl,’ I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.
Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.
I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.
I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.
If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I’m just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I’ll have a song in an hour.
Since I don’t feel like I belong solely to any one of them I find that it makes me even more interested and open to other cultures as well. It’s also fun looking ethnically ambiguous because no one can quite put a finger on what I am and it’s very entertaining to me!
Not only am I putting music out there, I’m giving part of myself away.
My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.
I don’t have any rock star demeanor to me. I just can’t pull that off.
I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they’re singing my songs! And to me, that’s crazy.
I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I’d like to think that what I’m doing is special and specific to me.
I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it’s training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.
I’m really into good nutrition and keeping healthy! That said, I’m also addicted to candy – It’s my biggest weakness.
If you’re looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.
My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They’re completely out of my genre but they’re both musical geniuses.
The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn’t quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.