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 know that I'm very susceptible to getting caught up in storylines like, "I want him to be different. I want him to be more open. I want him to call." We have all of these storylines that kind of take over sometimes, and I think there's real grace and a peaceful heart at the center of just accepting what is, and knowing that everything's OK. The good, the bad, the ugly, the pain, the hurt, the frustration - all of that is valuable and part of this human experience, so we should lean in to all of it.

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.

Love is blind, but when we close our eyes, we see with our hearts.

I love the morning time. There's something about having the day in front of you.

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?