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

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

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

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

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

I feel really good about the future and working with people..

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

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

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

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….

My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything, people just started booking for me. I….

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..

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

Different cultures have different audiences..

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….

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….

I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of ….

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven..