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I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

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

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.