lyrical introspection Quotes

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through.

When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself. As I'm writing these songs, I have to learn these lessons and dig real deep into my heart to write this stuff.

I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"

I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.

When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about themselves. The greatest artists, they didn't sing; they only spoke.

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.