'I Just Wanted to Write Down My Feelings': Donald Glover Explains His Recent Instagram Posts

Donald Glover just had some thing he wanted to get off his chest. The multi-hyphenate talked to People about his recent series of Instagram posts sharing personal thoughts like, "I'm afraid my parents won't live long enough to see my kids" and "This is the first I've felt helpless." According to Glover, he was having a bad night when he posted those messages.

"That night, we had a show, and then afterwards, I had this moment of feeling like, 'What's the point? Why am I even here?' " Glover told PEOPLE exclusively Wednesday. "I just wanted to write down my feelings. I definitely was just expressing myself."

"If I'm depressed, everybody's depressed," he says. "I don't think those feelings are that different from what everybody's feeling. Most people just don't tell everybody." 

"I was just tired of telling people I was tired. It felt like every day someone would ask, 'What's wrong. Are you OK?' " says Glover. "And I would say, 'I'm tired, I'm tired.' I didn't want to do that anymore. I guess sometimes not telling the truth is just as bad as telling a lie."

If you've listed to Glover's Childish Gambino music, you know that he doesn't shy away from sharing feelings like this. All of the Shine, one of the songs off Camp, has the lyrics, "Sometimes I feel like I ain't supposed to be here / Sometimes I wake up, I don't want to be here." He's a guy with deep feelings. Sometimes those feelings come out in song. Sometimes they come out on Instagram.