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.

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

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.

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

I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.

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.

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.