You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.

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

I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make it better because they don't seem to make it better at any given moment or we can't decide how to get across the aisle to that person.

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