When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have to be this thing where I go out and I'm like candy-striping, or becoming a therapist or something. I think that maybe, maybe I'm supposed to [be a musician], because of that fact.

For me, making music in general is a therapeutic process. It began as a way for me to meet friends, and when you're a kid just screaming your face off, you're processing anger; you're processing all the things that happened to you, whether it's mistrust or confusion, whether you've gone through abuse.

It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all this time.

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

If you do the right thing, the right thing will come down the path.

I'm three years into my recovery from heroin and all this stuff and I want to be able to help people. But they have to do it on their own.