Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.