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I write my songs because I've lived them.

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

I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience.

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

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 feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

I try to stick with things that I can sing with honesty.