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My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.

I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics.