"I keep wondering when it'll happen, and I don't mean onstage, because onstage I'm great, but in my life, I keep wondering when I'll walk into a room and not hunch and for when I won't be insecure and for when I won't be too loud to overcompensate for my insecurities.

"We'd be home and I wouldn't say anything for eight hours and she'd say, 'Where is he?'"

"I was honest about how I felt in that moment and to me it was more important, maybe, to have things not as perfect but just so that when people hear it they can hear me smiling or hear that I'm hurting or hear that I'm sentimental about what I'm singing and that it's not just pasted together."