It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.

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

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

[Writing] has helped me meet people.

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.

I was like just writing and writing and then I kinda developed my sound. And then, my managers were like, "Okay, we're gonna try to get a deal." And then first it was Interscope, and then it was Atlantic. And then, I ended up signing with Atlantic, but it was like a long process, a really long... it was A LONG PROCESS. I feel like it took me two years to do it.