What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, "Okay, I want to do that."

I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.