People Like To Tear You Down. People

Success Isn't One Straight Line - It's A Ladder, And There's Always Another Rung Above You To Reach Out For. Like Anything Else, There Are Ups And Downs.

As A Kid, In The Runaways, I Would See The Interviewers Start To Ask About Our Personal Lives And What We Did — And I Could See The Look In Their Eyes. They Were Practically Frothing At The Mouth. So If I Answered These Questions, I Knew They Were Never Gonna Talk About The Music. It Was Like That Instinct — Don’t Go There, Man. Have Boundaries. Have Mystery. You Don’t Have To Let Everybody In! I Want To Be Singing To Everybody, And I Want Everybody To Think That I’m Singing To Them. Guys, Girls And Everyone In Between.

Women Are Still Second-class Citizens.

I Really Wanted It To Be Organic And Coming From My Heart. So, I Think Maybe The Initial Thought Of Wanting To Go In That Direction, I Had To Wait Until Things Happened In Our World And In Our Country That Fired Me Up Enough Where The Words Came Out Organically.

I Know That Sounds Cliché, But Mostly From My Own Experiences And Things I See Around Me. We're All Human Beings, And A Lot Of The Things I Write About Are Pretty Universal Things.