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I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

Before I wasn't sure what I wanted to say, but now, I have had so many different experiences that they have given me what I want to get across in my music.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.