Everyone's music is made of their own life experiences.
I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.
I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.
When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone's life.
I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs.
I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.
