It's easy for me to be vulnerable and craft songs when I'm being a hermit in my woods loft, secluded. When I get attention for it, whether it's on stage or in life - I have sort of a love-hate relationship with all of it. That makes me feel really stark naked.

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

I don't really usually write sort of a cheerleader-type lyric.

What tries to break us is endlessly fascinating to me. Joy is a whole different game to express.

I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.

There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it.

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.