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

I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.

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.

You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be." You realize that you need to like yourself.

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

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

I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.