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

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

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

If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?

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.

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.