I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.

Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.

I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.