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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

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.

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

There's a wide spectrum of possibilities in how to deliver a song.

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done.