Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like the writing process is as intimate as it as before, if not more. Because I need my time more than I had before.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.