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

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

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 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.

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

I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.