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I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

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.

Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

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.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they'd come from this age of shared music.

For your songs to connect with people, they've got to mean something to you.