There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair..

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore..

Different cultures have different audiences..

I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force..

In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your li….

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music..

I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I….

I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things..

I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird k….

I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor..

I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children..

My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience..

The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "stra….

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK..

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life..

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want..

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to..

I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different ea….

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing..

In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into in….

I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind..