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There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.