I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

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

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.

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

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.