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 know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

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

In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like the writing process is as intimate as it as before, if not more. Because I need my time more than I had before.

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

My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.

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.