It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.

I'd rather clean my toilet than go to a show-business party.

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.