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I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real.

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.