I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically.
'Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.
It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.
Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.
In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.
I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
I think 'Lost Boy' is just really relatable. You can be any age from any place in life, and you're bound to feel lonely at some point.