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I've Cried, And You'd Think I'd Be Better For It, But The Sadness Just Sleeps, And It Stays In My Spine The Rest Of My Life.

They Say It's Better To Bury Your Sadness In A Graveyard Or Garden That Waits For The Spring To Wake From Its Sleep And Burst Into Green.

I've Never Conceptualized Much Of What I Write About. Maybe, Once I'm Onto Something, I'll Conceptualize A Finished Record. I Want The Songs To Tie Together And Make Sense Together. I'm Not Like, "oh, I Want To Explore This Idea." That's Just Not How The Creative Process Works For Me. It's More Like Something Strikes Me, Or Finds Me, And Then I Wrestle With It After That. I Don't Sit Back In My Armchair, Like, "what Kind Of Philosophy Can I Explore Today?"

I Try Not To Think About The Idea Of Reaching More And More People, Because Once You Get In That Mindset, I Think You Lose The Point Of Why You're Doing It In The First Place. Still, The Best Feeling I Ever Get Is When I Finish A Song, And It Exists, And It Didn't Exist Before, And Now It's There, And It Makes Me Feel A Certain Way.

You Can't Manufacture Inspiration, So A Lot Of It Is Still A Waiting Game For Me. There's Still A Lot Of Mystery To Songwriting. I Don't Have A Method That I Can Go Back To - They Either Come Or They Don't.