I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.
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If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.
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 an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.
I am really heavy into songwriting.
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.
'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.