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What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and what I am thinking. I wrote about my family, friends and boys, of course, and about life.

Most of my songs aren't about me. They're about stuff I've seen.

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

It feels surreal to know that people out there know me, know my songs, and give me so much love.

I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.