When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.
I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.
Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.
I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.
Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.
I think the fact is that World Coming Down was just a really hard album for people to deal with.
Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didn't want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.