Music is catharsis for me.

My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was looking at me, and I was floating off the ground. It was just euphoric.

The most powerful place you can come from is just having a really deep knowing of who you are and what you want for yourself.

I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.

I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs that sound that way - the emphasis being on the storytelling, but the arrangements and the orchestrations can be really varied - I found that to be, actually, a really joyful discovery.

The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.