Pretty is never beautiful.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.