"When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden."
"When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure."
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"I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different."
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