On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

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.

Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not.

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry.'

I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.

Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.