For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.
I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.
There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
I like risky stuff.
I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.
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.
What I really like doing is taking risks, musically.
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.
I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.