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

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

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.

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it's hard to go there. I didn't sit down and go, 'I want to write something about my dad now.'

The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.