I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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