I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply.

I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.

I don't like things to be handed to me on a plate; that means nothing. I like to go through layers of unraveling and every time I listen to something, it makes me feel something different. Now I'm aware of the conflict that's going on, but at the time I just let what was happening happen.

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

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.

I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.