I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wanting to say something. Once I've run out of things to say, I'll be done.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Subconciously, the things you listen to and you believe in, those things are going to come out, you know what I mean? I think you take that and make it your sound; that's what I do when I'm putting together genres of music.
I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.
It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.
I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.
The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.
When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.
The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.
Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.