My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
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My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
I've been through a lot of struggles.
You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.
Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.
I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.
I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.
When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.
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