Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.

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.

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

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

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

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me.