The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.

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

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

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

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.

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.