Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life. ↗
Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.' ↗