Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.