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I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

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

I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.