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There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.