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I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.
All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved.
My independent songs are actually about me, so if you really want to know me, listen to my songs and know what I have been through in my life.
I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place.
The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.
I love to work. You want to talk about natural highs? There's nothing like it.
And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
