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Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and just feel so much better afterwards. For me it's very therapeutic. But love in general - even when it's good - is always very inspiring.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.