It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you

I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.