I want to walk through life.

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.