I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.
I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.
Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.
I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story.
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.
My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.
When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.
I love songs that are very autobiographical.
I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.