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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.

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 something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

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.

I am really heavy into songwriting.

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.

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.

My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.