I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there.
Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.
The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.
I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.
I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.
When I am not writing, I'm dying.
I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.