If you hold on to certain things that are comfortable and maybe a bad pattern for you psychologically, then you rob yourself of the experience of the next thing that happens when you do start to let go. It's only by trusting that, and by the leaps of faith, that you remember that's true.

Everyone is more than what you see on the cover; we all run deep and have our story.

Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and transform your experience of it. Having some sort of creative outlet to do that is another gift.

I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.

Hopefully, my tears are worth something to the outside world.

Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.

I once heard someone doing a karaoke version of my song. That was pretty funny.