Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.