What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?

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

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.