I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.
The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.