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.

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

I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.

I'm really conflicted about my role as a front-person. I hate the attention.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.