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.

I feel like I'm being put inside a box, and I'm not necessarily getting a chance. Like I'm not getting the shot that I deserve. So that's what Rare is about 'cause I feel because I am the way that I am, and I don't necessarily fit the mold of a lot of different artists that's out, it's like I'm not getting the chance to show what I can do. So, that's basically all the frustration of that, and everything is pretty much Rare for me anyway.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

I like to be around things that I find inspiring.

In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first and second World Wars. Unfortunately, they're dead and I wasn't able to speak to them, but that was in our family history too.