It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.