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.

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

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

My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything, people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.

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

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.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.