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Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.