If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.
Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.
How can I shield myself from the things that I hear?
I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.
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.