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It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

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

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.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

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

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