America's a very traumatized society.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.