Of course your experiences in life come through in your songs, everybody looks at the world through their own experiences and perspective, but I don't write about me, or things I've done.

However, that doesn't mean my experiences are totally isolated. If you can communicate a shared and common experience in your songs, then people will react well to them.

For example, Garth Brooks sang, "Sometimes late at night, I lie awake and watch her sleeping." In songwriting talks I often give this as a kind of negative example of an idea I could never have come up with since it's totally outside my experience, explaining that since I wear glasses, I take them off when I go to bed, and therefore can't see a damn thing. :)