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.

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.

I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

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.