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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making the films, they're just not the same as they used to be to you. That doesn't mean your life is over; it just means maybe go try to live a different life.