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I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.

I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.

With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

I gave up on music. I still love to play, but it's too hard to make a living. And I think that was a mature decision to make.

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.