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I listened to pretty much anything that I could really feel, where I felt like the artist had to write those songs, where you can feel their soul and the pain and the happiness and love and everything.

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.