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

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

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.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

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.

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.