John Mayer

gave me so much more depth, so much more depth.

Those feelings, those feelings of panic, those feelings of the walls are closing in, they come with questions.

They come with every question.

Why can't I sleep?

What's going on in the universe?

What's going on in my body?

It turns into hypochondria.

Is my heart beating faster?

Is my throat closing?

Why do I feel my pulse in my ear?

And you're a WebMD looking up everything.

And whatever that is also makes you super keyed in to yourself in a way that for me, I wrote a lot of, a lot of my music came from wanting answers after feeling really, really lost because I lost my weight just in my head.

Like it got to the point where when I would have an anxious moment, I'd be like, well, here comes a song.

Do you ever get that?

your life I never and I can say this with great confidence I never tried to induce an experience just to write a song ever in my life ever I've never thought if I do this I'll get material I promise you I would have absolutely in those moments as a 20 21 22 23 year old guy traded every song I was going to write to not have that feeling

No doubt about it.

No doubt about it.

I would have said take all the songs I'll ever write, stop this feeling from happening right now.

And for whatever that feeling was, it just focused my eyes on the important things.

What's going on in life?