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There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

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.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.