If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.

I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."

You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you truly don't believe what you're spittin' then you need to really seriously be an actor then.

The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat.