I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.
It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.
I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like, somebody might say something, and I'll go, oh that's a good line, and that goes in the folder, too. It's kind of an ongoing process for me.
There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.
I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there
I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way