You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.

Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.

I go straight for Seinfeld, Modern Family, Friends, and Golden Girls. Those are my pillars of strength on TV.

Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

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 do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's one of the main tenets of Buddhism - accepting that what is, is. The root of our suffering is when we just don't want to accept a truth. We want something to be different than it is.