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 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.

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.

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

I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano.

I immediately target sadness and conflict and disruption in life.