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Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

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

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.

When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

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

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

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Songwriters tell the truth.