I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
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I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.
I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.
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 did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it was really good. So I burnt it all.
I write music, really, to make myself feel better.
I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.
I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.
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.
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