The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.
I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.
I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.
Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
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.
All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.