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

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.

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.

My breaking heart and I agree, that you and I could never be, so with my best...my very best, I set you free

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.

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

I immediately target sadness and conflict and disruption in life.