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What I've learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someone's life.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.