To create art requires emotion. Always we're told this, shown this.
I think that's why I make the best poems, paint/draw the best pictures and play the best music when I'm sad or lonely. I'm not 100% sure about this though, I don't know the inside of my head well enough to be sure. And I'm not sure I want to.
I guess I'm trying to make something beautiful out of something heartbreaking. Something positive (normally) out of something negative. It could be why there's so many sad love/break up songs, I don't know, I've never written a song. I don't think I could. Maybe that's why artists are always portrayed as troubled and mentally ill, maybe that's why they don't try to change the stereotype. Because art needs emotion, and the easiest emotion to work with is heart break.
Or maybe I'm just melodramatic....