When you're writing songs, you're in a certain mode and you can get away with more stuff—songs are a step away from reality, and I just found that world easier to inhabit.
It's funny, I had such a nice time revisiting it. Maybe it's that rose-coloured spectacles thing, but I find that when you look at an episode of your life like a story or a movie, it becomes way easier to handle.
Even if it's quite desperate, you work with what you have and you're always trying to look for the gains. The two big up-points of having gone through this difficult experience were...
I think it's my natural storytelling guise—it's become natural for me, maybe as a born liar or something. I decided to write it as a novel and not a memoir.
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