The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.