I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.
I'm still finding myself as an artist. I'm still experimenting a little bit.
There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.
You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.
Who isn't difficult? I'm difficult as an artist.
The hardest thing for an artist to do is to let go. I don't wanna be the dude - if you come to my house, there are no pictures circa '86 in my house.
Everything's been a struggle for me.
My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.
The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.