You know what, I think that the hardest part for me was knowing that there’s a chance that the people I wrote the songs about will hear them and and realize that they’re about them. I don’t like being mean. [Laughs] And I don’t want people to have hurt feelings, but like I said before, a lot of what I said and what I’m saying is stuff that I don’t have the audacity or the gusto to say to their faces. I guess that’s what makes it easy. I’m hiding behind a guitar, or a piano, or pen and paper.

-John O’Callaghan In my latest interview found at alterthepress.com (via supernovaecastaway)

I wish I wrote the way I thought
Obsessively
Incessantly
With maddening hunger
I’d write to the point of suffocation
I’d write myself into nervous breakdowns
Manuscripts spiralling out like tentacles into abysmal nothing
And I’d write about you
a lot more
than I should.

-Benedict Smith / “I Wish I Wrote The Way I Thought” (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)