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The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.

You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

I write my songs because I've lived them.