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Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.
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'Fresh Eyes' was my own little discovery of having been in a relationship for a while and realizing that my favorite part of it is being surprised.
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I love songs, and I love to tell stories, and so a lot of times, if you really want a good story, you got to flip the radio dial over to country.
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Stevie Wonder makes my heart happy and is my spirit animal. That is all.
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I am so blessed and lucky.
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I love going places that could sound cheesy but, when you hear them, just sound sincere.
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We always need little reminders that it's gonna be all good.
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I am happy to join AutoNation in the fight against cancer. This disease hits close to home for me with the loss of my mom in 2009. Raising awareness and finding a cure is really important to me.
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I'm from New York, so I'm simultaneously a snob and will also eat any pizza you put in front of me.
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I feel like if you told me I would be having a son, I would be like, 'Yeah, I'm gonna be a parent - I get that.' But when the doctor was like, 'You're gonna have a girl,' I was like, 'What? Who am I?' It's the craziest piece of information that changes who you are. It's sweet.
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I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song.
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I don't really think in terms of goals.
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Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.
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My third album, that will definitely be about this little girl and the process of watching your wife get pregnant. It's crazy.
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Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours - and, if you're really lucky, full days - where everything feels just right.
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When I was a street performer, before I had any songs of my own that anybody would stop and put in money for, I would always be doing covers. Even with covers, people wouldn't stop in the beginning.
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You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.
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If I write a sad song, at the end it's gotta be like, 'Dude, things are looking up!'
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I love me some 'Family Guy.'
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I think that's what makes a great show: when the performers onstage aren't putting on a show, they're legitimately just having a freaking awesome time.
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Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''
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As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.
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Once you see the impact that you have on people, either at a meet and greet or after a show, you think, 'Oh man, they need to feel better today.'
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'The Good Parts' is me telling as much as I can of the deeper sides of myself that I haven't shared before. It's like an onion that gets deeper every time you cut it.