You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug

If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

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.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

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

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'