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.

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've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.

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

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

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.

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.