Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

You don't want to say somebody did a great job of acting. You want to say, "Where did he find that person? How did he get that factory worker to come out of the factory and be on camera?" You want to believe that person is real.

I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something about me.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.

When I was sixteen, I began to think outside the box of my small town. Not that the people in my small town are in a box - they're not! There's a brilliant college there, and I had brilliant teachers from that college. But in terms of a conservative upbringing, which I did have within my own family, I just began to question things and to think for myself.