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Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.