If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.

When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.

You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come out...Just jump right in full force and be as silly and stupid and adolescent and introspective as you want to be.

I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.

I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

The only thing I have going on at a personal level is just the way I knew I was gay and I knew what that meant inside me, but the gender aspect of who I am came later.