That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.

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

I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

All my songs are where I am.

There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.