When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

I'm still finding my way, and I made a lot of mistakes.

I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.