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The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going to inform the richness that you sing from... The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something.