I find it relatively easy to keep my clothes on because I don't really feel like taking them off. It's not an urge I have. For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. That's putting myself out there, maybe even more than taking my shirt off.

I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.

Style is such a personal thing; it's your way to be an individual.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.

It took a while to understand the beauty of just letting go

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.