And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me.

I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.