I wanted to relinquish fear ...
Guitar World, Interview, Guitar World, 4 March 2026 source ↗
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What is your greatest fear?Originally asked
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I wanted to relinquish fear as much as I could in the writing process. I wanted to be really honest with myself; to lean into things I was afraid to say.
No. I think when I first started writing songs, I was approaching it more literally or narratively in the beginning, but through observing some of my close friends and some of my heroes write, I pretty quickly shifted into at least starting the process from a more subconscious space, or a more instinctual space. And I’ve really come to believe that it’s all there. It’s all already there, and if you can just kind of open the window and step out of the way, at least at the beginning of the process, with your subconscious mind, you can unearth so much raw material, and then go back and sift through that and shape it.
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