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Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

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

Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.