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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

My songs are somewhere between story and situation. There's also character and mood. I'm an intuitive writer, both with instrumentals and songs with words.

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.

I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.

Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.