If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?

I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.

My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.

I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place.

In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.

You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be." You realize that you need to like yourself.

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.