I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
You have to be very brave in that first writing session.