I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.
I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.
The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.
A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't.
As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.