Especially in the sphere of social activism, I think we tend to unwittingly conceptualize progress or revolution as black and white and having a clear beginning and end.

It's like a cosmic joke that people dream to perform in front of a huge crowd. But it is a welcomed challenge. I hope I always have that positive apprehension.

The midterms are a chance for people to vote out those they believe are failing to address the concerns of citizens.

Connecting with people who are able to maintain a sense of humility is really useful.

With my own music, I'm much more reluctant to say, you know, 'This record slaps!'

Writing from life is how I feel most comfortable.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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?

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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?'

I'm always nervous.

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 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 don't think that you can just walk through life without all of your experiences informing your perspective on the world.

I do not want to make art and then try to dictate how people use it, or how people interact with it.

I make sure I'm appreciative and can an encounter the world in a humble way.

I'm not losing the wonder in playing music.

When I first started playing guitar, I would sit in my room for hours and learn scales.

With my first high school band ever, we would have these breaks in the song for idiotic solos, solos that were un-tasteful and would be shredding, but I needed to put them in there, and I realize now it's because we were playing shows with a whole bunch of bands that were all male.

I'm a perfectionist.

I'm Type A to a fault.

Everyone I know has a predilection for sharing words.

There are bands who write of emotions that are very heartbreaking, touching, or relatable, but they'll be like concept records, they're about fictional characters.

I don't think I'll ever get that tour ennui. Just getting to visit New York and all these different places - I'm always so excited to look at the window. I look like a crazy tourist stumbling around... 'This is beautiful.'

I adopted this idea whether I was going to end up making music for three people in a bar or Wembley Stadium, I was always going to do music.

Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?'

I stan my friends!

Painting with broad strokes, I feel like a lot of journalism makes it out to be like the collective consciousness has a finite imagination for multiple women at one time in a similar genre.

There are still men in the professional or behind the scenes world that are controlling women to build credibility.

There are so many people in Memphis who have real reasons to be angsty, but I was just a suburban white kid with all this misplaced rage.

Tolerance exists.

All my heroes are teachers.

Sometimes, it feels artificial to try to come up with a solution to something that none of us know how to solve.