I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

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.

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.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like the writing process is as intimate as it as before, if not more. Because I need my time more than I had before.

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.