It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's a combination of confidence and just having done it this long and just learning. I'm always learning. I'm still honing my craft.

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.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

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

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it

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