If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.
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I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.
When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.
It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.
I don't really call myself a composer.
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'
If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.
You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.
I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.