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.

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.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

Time and time again I can't please myself.

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.

You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.