I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

You can never really understand it until you've experienced it.

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

I've had to ban my mum from coming to see me play. She gets so nervous before any show. I've always got a few nerves but she's so much worse than me. You'd think she'd be able to handle that kind of situation. After all, she is a concert pianist.