I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.
I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.
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.
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 "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.
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.
I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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 life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.
Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.
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 was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place.
I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.
When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.
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 the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.
In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like the writing process is as intimate as it as before, if not more. Because I need my time more than I had before.
I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.
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 each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me.
