I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out.

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because now I am married. I tried to explain again that there are other things to write about besides boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy breaks up with girl, girl is sad.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.