Is Your Songwriting a Part of Who You Are?

I think I got motivated to address it because growing up, I was a bit... I don't want to say necessarily that I was ostracized, but I was not the cool kid. And when you have this dream or this desire to be something that maybe they've never seen before, it doesn't run in the family or what have you. It was just important to me anyway to be able to express who I was and the vision that I had. You know, when you're 15 years old and you start writing songs, and these songs are extremely deep and it takes a lot to kind of go there.