Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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 is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
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.
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.