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I don't write about anything I haven't been through.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.