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Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!