People who know my music think I'm the most depressed girl on the planet.

I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

As I grow older, what I find interesting is that I get experience with pain, different types of pain, and I start to see the lovely hilarity of life. Things that were once so crushing take on a different essence. I move through it at a faster rate. It's like traveling: it opens my eyes. My process is to allow myself to have it and to not judge myself or the situation too much, and then to create something with it.

I immediately target sadness and conflict and disruption in life.

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.

People who know my music think I'm the most depressed girl on the planet.

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