I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.
At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.
I love songs that are very autobiographical.
I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.
The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.
I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.
Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.
Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.
I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.
Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.
Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.
With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.
