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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.

As far as the music goes, I like melody.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

Music is about textures as well as melody.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

I've always been a writer who does simplistic, simple melodies. But I think it works.

Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.