Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.