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.
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It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
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.
I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.
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.
When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.
Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.