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 don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

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.

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

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

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

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.