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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.