The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.
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I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story.
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
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.
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.
Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.