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

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.

I feel really good about the future and working with people.

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

You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.

In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?