If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.
I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.
My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.
I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.
When you write or sing a song that means something to you, you are saying, 'You know what? This is who I am!'
Everything on the radio is metaphorical in a bad way. But when I write a lyric, like "bang my box," that's pretty clear.
