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.

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.

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.

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.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

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.