You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.

Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in.

I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

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

I'm trying to get out of my own way

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there