If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.
Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.
Getting out on stage and playing music for people feels great when people are cheering for you, that's obviously really exciting. But what's most exciting is the idea that we're all experiencing something that's bigger than us.
If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.
I used to be so young, how did I get so old?
I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don't feel complicated.
Sold my soul to the devil for nice penmanship. Now I write real pretty but I'm starting to regret it.
Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.
The more you push, pass that pain, to feel the exhilaration of what that pain really delivers, then you will find the values of who you are.
I think I'd be a good pimp cuz I'd never beat my ho's.
My priority will be making sure my family is happy and settled.