There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
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There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.
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.
I don't sit down to write a song, per se.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done.
Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.
When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.