There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.
Desperate times make for desperate songs.
From out of pain, beauty.
All of my songs were about my firsthand experiences. Pretty much, I've learned how to become my own muse and take situations from my own life and wear them on my sleeve.
Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie.
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.
I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it.
The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'
I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place.
Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.
One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
