Sometimes I don't even know what to name a song when I get done with it, and I'll let somebody else tell me what I should call it because it's whatever stuck in their head.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.
I like to make my name of songs strange.
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.
I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.
When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.
I don't want to put a name on my music. Other people can put a name on what I do. It's just the union of what I've been listening to and what I've been learning. It has some elements of classical music, it has some rock, it has some jazz, but I don't want to give it a name.
I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.
If I write the song, I get to name it.
Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.