I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they'd come from this age of shared music.
I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.
I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.
I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.
Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.
I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.
My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.