There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

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

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.

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