There's not a second of my time on tour where I'm not engaged with something. It is the hardest job - a great job, and I love it - but truly the hard….

Sometimes you have to say no to things that people don't want you to say no to in the interest of self-preservation. I definitely went through some t….

Sometimes you need to turn things down in the interest of being able to do the weird, magical thing that you do that takes so much of your time, and ….

I really like to plan and think ahead and put things in their place. I'm a bit of a control freak. In many ways, I have done myself a great service o….

I would like to go back in time and remind myself that when you're working in music field, it's very easy to overestimate how much of yourself you ha….

I don't think of music as being a competition - what I make is exactly what I want it to be for me, and it's not better or worse than anything else. ….

I will say this: it's important to work hard, but you have to know your limits. There's always another show, but if there's no "you"; if you have not….

I really don't see the point of making music if you don't love it, and I'm lucky enough to say I love my music, and love the things I've made over th….

There were a lot of times that I'd rather be hanging out with friends, or out at a show, but instead I stay home and work on music. It's important to….

A lot of mantras that I use in my daily life to get through - to move through the world in peace and harmony with myself - find their way into the mu….

I'm a real people pleaser, and for a while I was really desperate to make a kind of thing that would satisfy everyone, and I realized I was focusing ….

I'm lucky that I know so many people in the world, but it's also heartbreaking because I'm only one person, and I only have as much time as everyone ….

I love what I do and I'm super confident in it, but I also think of myself as humble in it. It's not better than what anyone else is doing, but I'm d….