My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.