that Stapp decided he will "take responsibility" for his actions. Stapp was inspired by this experience when he wrote My Own Prison title track. Stapp said the song relates his discovery that he "couldn't blame others for the walls constricting my life. 'My Own Prison' was the consequences for my bad decisions. It was my own fault that I did shitty in school, that I got fired from my job, that I was living in my car. I had to grow up." Stapp said about writing the title track: "One night I woke up about 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. from a dream and I just wrote it all down," Stapp said. "I didn't know it was a song at the time. A few days later I called [guitarist] Mark [Tremonti], he had been putting together some music, and we sat down and got the song together in about 30 minutes." "What's This Life For" is about a best friend of Tremonti who committed suicide, and Tremonti described the song as "a song about suicide and kids searching for that meaning of life". "One", a more catchy and more upbeat-sounding song on My Own Prison, is about unity and criticizes society's alleged lack of unity. "Torn" is about how Stapp was expelled from a Christian school, lived in an apartment, and wrote his thoughts on a piece of paper, becoming the basis of the song. Tremonti wrote "Torn". Prior to Creed's mainstream success, Tremonti had a couple of jobs to finance college, and he washed cars for 4 years and worked as a cook. "One day, I came home from work at about 3 in the morning," he said. "I was all dirty and stinky and hating my life, so I just wrote a song about what it's like being a kid in between 18 and 23, when you haven't graduated from school yet and you don't know what you're doing with your life." Tremonti then said: "It's about how hard that period of time is, when you're broke, you have to work two jobs to go to school. I was at a hard point in my life, so I wrote a song about it," he explained. Artwork and packaging Prior to releasing the album on their own independent label, Blue Collar Records, the band recruited Daniel Tremonti, brother of guitarist Mark Tremonti, to become the band's creative director. Stapp