Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It's frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.