Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

Of course, I came up around music and fame, but this is still my first time experiencing it all. I'm still going through it like anybody else goes through it. But I'm still doing something I've never done before.