I feel like I make a soundtrack for the come up, and I feel like there's so many people that's trying to figure out how to chase their dreams, or that are in the process of chasing their dreams, so they connect with that. And then being a singer, you don't really get to touch on nothing either.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.

I like to be around things that I find inspiring.

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

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.