As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing.
When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.
I feel like in every situation in life, I just always end up singing, like, anywhere.
The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.
It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.
I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.