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.

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.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.