People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.
I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.
The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.
I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.
I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.
"On Script" is one of my favorite songs I've ever written. I'd just been jamming on it one day, and again I was struggling with lyrics. I'm still figuring out what it's about. I've seen a couple of reviews that are like, "It's about the monotony of playing the same songs every night," because I say, "On script every night/Like a well-rehearsed stage show." It's not about that at all, but I find that funny, how people project what they think about me, or songwriters in general.
I don't like to overcook songs.
Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.
The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.
I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I do sit down to write, I'm pretty lazy at it. And it's such a frustrating thing sometimes - writing - when you don't do it all the time, you get that thing in your head that you have nothing to talk about and you can't write songs.
Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.
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