I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I write music visually.
Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.
I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.
When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.