When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time.

I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I probably would be.

My mom is a history teacher, so we'd go on all these historic trips as kids around Halloween, because it was kind of creepy.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

In some ways, being on the road is like summer camp. There's a camaraderie, but I'm also learning how to be more of a leader.

In 2015, I told my band that I was taking a break so I could focus on my home life, go back to school, and try to remember what it was like to feel like a human being again.

I don't think I'll ever feel perfectly balanced, but I feel like I'm figuring it out, and I'm surrounded by really wonderful people that want to see me succeed and be happy. Life is wild.