I will entertain things that are entertaining and sound interesting and challenge me. But acting just doesn't come second-nature to me.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

I love being domestic: making coffee, just putting on a record, and just sitting, not doing anything. It's so great.

I'm still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven't found that balance yet.

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

I've always been really shy. I was always afraid of any kind of confrontation.

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

One day when I have a band I will have a band name, but since it's just me I feel it should just be my name. For me it doesn't make much sense since the music is from me and about me. I haven't ever been in a band.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

I think there are times in a lot of people's pasts where they've unintentionally fallen in love with really damaged people. You go out with someone who's a mess so you can feel less of a mess.

Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy.

I'm trying to learn how to cook.

I'm a late bloomer in music.

I wasn't a very good salesman.

I didn't have my first band until I was, like, 30.

My goal is to become a therapist by the time I'm 50.

In 2015, I told my band that I was taking a break so I could focus on my home life, go back to school, and try to remember what it was like to feel like a human being again.

I started playing, and people responded to it and connected with it and now, I don't even know what I'm really connecting with anymore or if I'm helping people. Now it's more of a business.

My friends actually used to call me the 'Female Conor Oberst.' I got to open up with him once, and I told him about that, and he thought it was hilarious.

I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional.

I was pretty troubled for a long time. And I didn't know that. As a kid, I never talked about my emotions. My mom gave me a journal, but I didn't know what it meant. I just wrote all the time, not even thinking about it. But it also made me feel better.

My career is based off of me talking about my emotions.

I'm not a down-in-the-dumps person. I think some people assume that I am because of the music I write.

I'm a sucker for a love song!

Every time I re-perform a song, I gain some perspective.

I work a lot with sounds based on stream of consciousness. I like the way it sounds, then I turn it into something that makes more sense.

On first listen, it's nice to just soak up the sound without thinking about what it means. It's like a relationship. Records I've had for years mean more to me now than they did years ago.