My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I've always made all these excuses. But I've realized that you have to just accept that it was a gift: "I don't know where it came from, I don't know how I did it, but I did write all those songs, and I gotta do it again."
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