When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.
Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.
The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.
You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.
I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.
When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.
That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.
With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.