It seems like your songs from the 2010s convey things that mirror my development/growth and the ideas I'm encountering. Did you use your music to help you go through the process of growing up into yourself?
yes but not at that time. i grew up many years before that, and i was only doing instrumental music back then. after i was an adult, that's about when i started trying to tackle the challenges of figuring out what i wanted to do with words, but even then, it still required many years of spiritual/philosophical searching, and wordplay, until i was finally confident enough to really jump head-on into the songwriting gambit. so all of the songs you are thinking of, would be well after that point