Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.
My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.
My songs are just little letters to me.
Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.
It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them.
'Tattoos' reminds me of where I'm from, and some of the stuff I did when I was growing up. That was one of the things that was appealing about the song when I heard it the first time.
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