I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

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

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

I've always toured solo acoustic.

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.

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