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 believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

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.

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

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

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

I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place.