Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
I've always toured solo acoustic.
I've always been a workhorse.
What we call human nature, is actually human habit.
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.