Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.

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.'

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.

I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged.

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon.