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Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.