I have to make three meals a day, so if I want fresh bread that I don't have to store overnight, of course I have to get up at pre-dawn to start that.

[For him, it's purely practical. He doesn't have a need to stay up very long after dusk either, so he has enough energy to wake up that early every morning.]

I'm... mm... glad that you were happy.

[He can't pin it down either, but it seems to him a rare accomplishment that something he does would bring joy to someone, since he's still coming from a place of expecting his old life to have been quite difficult.]