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

I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.

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.

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

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.

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.