I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.

In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.

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.

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.

The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.