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" I think if you're creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice. "

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" I don't want to get on stage and just be another act. "

" 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 think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune. "

" John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the man. He has basically captured all I believe in with music. "

" I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable. "

" At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online. "

" I'm proud to say I'm a role model for kids. "

" I have a thing where if I'm not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse. "

" I always think, what type of 11th grader would I be if I was still at school? Or if I was home all the time, would I be at the gym 24/7? Would I be as good at guitar? I know I wouldn't be as mature as I am. "

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" 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. "

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" If I don't have cereal on the bus, I'm going to be really upset. "

" I'm kind of still learning my voice and learning my style. "

" I haven't really found the right person. That sounds like an older person thing to say, but I'm too busy and - not in a bad way - don't want to waste my time. "

" Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me. "

" I'm 100 per cent involved in everything that happens with my name, and I think if you're not, then there's something wrong. "

" There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it's very hard to meet those expectations. That's been a big stress in my life. "

" There's a lot more to success than just singing. "

" I was super-obsessed with cover videos. When I was, like, 10, I would come home from school and watch them from 4 o'clock until 8 o'clock every night. I was so intrigued that people took these super-popular songs and did them their own way. "

" 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'm tortured because I care. I'm always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care. "

" 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. "

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" Manuka honey is magic. "

" I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say. "