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I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

I'm typically not a heels person.

Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.

I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

The best shows I play, I almost don't even remember off the stage.

My hair looks so good out in the desert, it's unbelievable. It's, like, perfectly not frizzy.

I was a big fan of 'Days of Our Lives' growing up.

I wouldn't call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I feel it makes people happy when they see me.

I have that working-class show-business blood coursing through my veins.

I love 'Wowee Zowee.' That was the first Pavement record I bought.

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.

Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.

It really helps me to get into the character of the record when I have a designated look. It just really simplifies things for me.

In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.

I used to be a huge collector, and my big thing was stickers.

I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.

When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me.

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

I'm a pretty terrible rapper. I always have been.

I love kids, but there's always time for them later. You can always adopt; you can have a puppy. The songs are my children.

I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?

I learn lessons with every interview I give.

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.

I can parallel park pretty well - I'm a great driver.

I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'

My true social media passion is making creepy short movies on Instagram.

I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in Vegas called 'Love's Way.'

I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.

I'm more in the Stones camp than the Beatles camp.

I'm not trying to repeat myself or cater myself to one specific group of people.

I'm obsessed with old rotary phones.

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.

It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!

Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.

I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' positive songs. That's what the world needs.

I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.

I scored one film by myself, which was the hardest thing I think I've ever done.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.

If you wanna get to heaven, get out of this world.

When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.

You can find me at three in the morning in my living room with a glass of wine and really bad '90s trip hop beats blaring from my headphones.

Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.

When I'm not working is when I tend to freak out a bit. It's hard for me to just stay home.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.

I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.

I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.