Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.
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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.
There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.
If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.
Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.
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