I was a very emotional teenager. But I wish that I could tell myself that I matter more than I think. Things are a bigger deal than I think they are, but they're also not as big a deal as I think they are. My mistakes are not the end of the world.

I played with a band, and the lead singer would always introduce me as 'the 13-year-old lead guitarist.' I didn't want to be a novelty, like 'Oh, she has three arms! Check her out.' But I've learned to accept it as more of a compliment.

I'm always nervous.

There are a bunch of talented bands out there... So yeah, I often think, 'Why aren't these people onstage and why do I have a microphone?'

It used to be you would need a couple grand to make a record at a studio. Now, you can do it on freaking GarageBand.

The more we can personalise, the more the market can fragment, because of all the availability that streaming presents. Things become old sooner. That's terrifying.

The more blessings or resources you have at your disposal, the more I become aware of... how should I steward this? It's supposed to be an investment that I can turn around and create art that gives something to other people. Ugh, that sounds like the most Miss America answer of all time.

The goal of embodying Christian ethics - if you want to call yourself a Christian - is being patient and loving with your neighbor.

I like it when I go to a city and it puts its personality out there to be readily experienced.

If I have the choice of saying one of two things to people, I'd like it to be the more honest and hopeful thing.

It's just nice to have people around and see people actively trying to construct a community of mutual support around music.

Especially with women in music there is this unnecessary competitive element. And, like, why? Why do people do things where they try to put peers up against each other?

There are people I haven't seen for a year and we will do a show or something and when we hang out it'll be this instant endearment. I'm like, 'Our lives, the cosmos, are intersecting, and this will bring us closer together again. I have no doubt.'

I think what kids who like heavy music are really looking for is the honesty and candour of it.

I'm not going to force your participation in a conversation, I'm going to say I can be an example that these things can exist and don't have to be mutually exclusive. Like being a queer artist and being a Christian. Those things don't have to be mutually exclusive and I'm just going to be honest about them so that you know.

I think there's seasons of life. It oscillates.

When you have an addictive personality, you fixate upon things easily. Routines and behaviors, and ritual, becomes very important.

I feel like I've had bad nights or destructive nights or nights where I don't remember anything or nights where I was seriously injured or seriously in danger. And I remained nihilistic and unconcerned because it felt like there was no alternative.

I do have a little bit of trouble with candor around the things that I used to do. I think it's probably just resultant of shame and embarrassment and not wanting to be defined by the life that I used to live.

All of my favorite hymns are admissions of faults, and finding redemption even in those.

Some songs just fall out of you. And some you have to wrestle out like an abscess.

Music is everything. Evidence of the divine. The possibility of man to be good. The possibility of improving our surroundings and expressing ourselves. All of these things are collapsed together in my mind.

My music is not always about getting my ideas heard, it's about letting other people feel empowered to have their ideas heard by example.

Everybody wants to have an empirical analysis of a relationship ending, but sometimes there's not that much clarity, and that's OK.