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As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

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

That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you'd want to say.

As a writer, as a lyricist, you're just trying to make sure that you're not repeating yourself. And that's a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking corners and trying to find new paths.

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

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

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.