I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.
I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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.
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.
People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.
It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.
It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.
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