It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.
I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.
Most of my songs make fun of myself.
I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.
I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
I don't really cringe over any of my albums.