The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it; it's healthy for you,' and I could feel like: Good; now it's over...next!

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.