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.

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

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

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

I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.

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

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.