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

Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.

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're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.