I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.
I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.
We're all private people, but as a musician, I think that once you get to the point where there's more of your life behind you than in front of you, you owe it to your public to explain yourself.
I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.
Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.
Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.
For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.
I honestly in a lot of ways don't want to sing about my real life, because that's private.
I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.
'Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.