Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can write a lot of what I feel and it helps put it into clearer perspective.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.