In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

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.

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.

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

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

There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.