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

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

I'm kind of an emotional exhibitionist.

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.

I've finally learned to love my voice for its uniqueness.