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

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

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.

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

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

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

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.