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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.