I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

I feel sometimes that I’m in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

I don’t need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

I’d like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

I’m a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they’re in your head.

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don’t believe in romanticism and make-believe.

I feel like I’m creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.