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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

I listen to the Mars Volta and Fiona Apple every day. I feel if you do write music, you write what you listen to, and you couldn't possibly write in another genre. So those are the two that I usually use.

It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.