Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.
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.
I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.
The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.
I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.