The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

America's a very traumatized society.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.