I’ve always toured solo acoustic.
It’s really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.
I don’t see the world unless I see it in ink.
I don’t feel like I’ve changed as much as radio formats have changed.
Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.
I’m a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I’m very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I’m completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn’t happen, none of this is worth it.
I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That’s where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.
I’m the classic absent-minded professor: I’m very focused on something, and meanwhile, I’ve left the refrigerator door open for hours.
I didn’t mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that’s all I had to do.
I have always been a workaholic.
Most of us don’t spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.
I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in.
On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.
Amazingly, I’ve been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I’ve been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
For now I’m just enjoying being a mom. I don’t want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.
Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.
I don’t exist without writing.
Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.