Songwriting Quotes

"Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don’t care about anymore" "In every lyric, I leave a piece of my heart." "The hardest thing for me to do is to get you to know me within sixteen bars" "If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something" "The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - of making it is what you feel; the energy when you play it - that's what I love" "I don't think a song should be put in a category" "You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em but you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em"