It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.

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

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like, "Okay, well I want to be a songwriter," 'cause it was like close to Nashville.

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

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.