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Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a mirror.

I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go, 'Okay. How can I interpret these lyrics differently?' I love taking lyrics that were so close to me at a certain point in my life and then revamping them. I always want to take things to the next level.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'