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I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from.

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

When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.