♪ [ cheers ] >> over the last four years, just learned how to write for my own reasons and write for myself. and it's pretty ironic that the moment i started doing that was the moment that most people related to it. ♪ an old man turned and he ate ♪ >> it was that ego centric tendency on my part and perhaps everyone's part to think that you're alone in your pain. i quickly realized that i was not alone, and that millions of other people were feeling along with me. people were tired of sublimating. people were tired of being inauthentic about their real experience and conforming. so i think there was this door that busted open, and i was on the crest of the wave. ♪ it's like rain on your wedding day ♪ ♪ it's a free ride though you've already paid ♪ >> "ironic" was funny because what she was talking about wasn't ironic at all. she became one of the biggest