People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.

You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.

Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.