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

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heartbeat' was my apartment in New York City. 'My Sister' was at my apartment in Boston. I remember places and I remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.

For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.