I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.
I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didn't want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.
The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.
I think I was blessed with this talent for a reason. No one told me how to write a song, but I'm just good at it, you know. There are a lot of other things in my life that I'm not so good at, but writing a song is not one of them.
That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.
Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.
I really didn't think about song writing.