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It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff.

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me, I think happiness makes you positive, and I think that's a good creative place to write from.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.