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I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

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.

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 I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

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

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.