So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.