When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.
Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.
I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.
It is easy to write unthinking music.
With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.
Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.