Sex is fun to sing about..

I do experience something pretty commonly with every song; there's some moment where it clicks into its own life with its own emotional impact that I….

Every form of communication is for the purpose of feeling, experiencing, sharing. Everyone has their own intense journey through life, and you don't ….

I know that a lot of songwriters write about a break up. It's a really popular topic. I think heartbreak is the number one thing people write about. ….

My identity is mostly as a songwriter and lyricist and singer. I also have a lot of production ideas but I have my own limitations in terms of what i….

I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it. I don't care what the critics say." But di….

So when you're talking about lyrics in the context of music, it's not just about what the words mean, and what you were thinking about when you wrote….

I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who have an innate resistance to a….

Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little..

I think that I have come at it backwards in a way because a lot of what I'm doing as a songwriter is not incredibly intentional. There's a moment tha….

You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and t….

I just write about what comes up. Sometimes you're thinking about Palestine, and sometimes you're thinking about sex. People have a lot going on..

I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and I think that I talk as if there….

The center for me is my heart, actually, and my emotional connection with the work. That's where authenticity comes from. It's also the first thing t….

I definitely enjoy working within different contexts, with different collaborators, and in different locations. I need to keep feeding myself as an a….

I don't feel like I have a lot of reference to sexual innuendo on my songs..

What I try to communicate is that there's a lot of crossover between that feeling of romantic heartbreak and this devastating feeling of knowing that….

I'm doing more deep listening, which is part of the role or job of the songwriter. I think with a lot of songwriting, songs sing themselves to you to….

That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex or singing about environmental de….

Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's going….

The music goes into people in a totally different way than words. There's air, there's the sound of words, there's touch, there's music. All of those….