I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

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.

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

Different cultures have different audiences.

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

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.

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