"I played viola all through high school and [University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas] actually gave me music scholarship, but I turned it down because I didn't want orchestra to be my major. If it would have been a music major, it would have been something completely different, because orchestra kind of takes over your life, and you have to practice 18 million times a day. I wanted to focus not so much classical music; I wanted to do pop music. It was probably a stubborn thing too, where I could have done both things at the same time but I wanted to spend most of my time making music."

"Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into. In college I'd try to get into it and fail miserably, and then I kinda gave up on it for a time. And then actually I was writing with Joe King from The Fray, and he was like, "Dude, you have to keep a journal, that's the only way you can get everything down and not forget it." Because I forget how I feel sometimes. So now, I feel like I'm pretty good at it. I still want to be better. But I feel like I'm pretty good at it."

"At first, I looked at it as a chore, like, I don't want to do this. But I actually learned to have fun with it. And I would say that I try not to be too serious about it. On the show, you're not allowed to show all of your personality, so when you get on Twitter you can. I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me."