People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!
I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.
In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life.
So it's the unwinding of your nervous system. The corresponding experience to what winds you up comes out in your dreams. To write a song then, even one like Don't Bother Me, helps to get rid of some subconscious burden. Writing a song is like going to confession.
I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.
You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well.
Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.
I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.
My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave 'em there. I don't carry that weight when I'm going throughout life. I'm not sad all the time.
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.
I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.
Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.
I write songs for myself, but I never keep them. I'm like, 'O.K., that was my therapy - it's out of my body now. I'm going to give it to somebody else so it can be their therapy, too.'
