My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.