I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.

If you calculate every single thing you could possibly need in your life, you would need no more than 200 people to keep all that afloat: a doctor, food, wine, cheese-eating friends, the person who makes paper, the shoemaker.