The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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.
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.
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.
When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.
The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.