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My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.