I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction.

I do have faith that something better is always coming for you.

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

Conflict is a great thing to start with. For me as a songwriter, I am constantly trying to solve problems.

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.

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.

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