Whenever I write songs, I get very emotionally drained. Even though your songs are usually upbeat and jazzy, the lyrics - though surreal - often show emotion and tell a story, such as in "Might Quit." Does writing lyrics ever take a toll on you emotionally? Or is it more of the overall strain of the creative process?
the lyrics don't get written by themselves. it's a song. the lyrics mostly never existed without the melody/music they belong to. and in most cases, the music didn't exist before the words either