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Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

I don't really like to explain my songs.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.