It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them.

I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is.

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

I try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It's more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time.

I'd rather see the world from a different angle.

Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.

Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.