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.

In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.

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

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.

Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?