The strongest feelings I've had in my life are when love has gone right and when love has gone bad. And I think strong feelings make good songs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.
Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.
In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.
Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting.
I listened to pretty much anything that I could really feel, where I felt like the artist had to write those songs, where you can feel their soul and the pain and the happiness and love and everything.
Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'
The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.