The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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.
Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
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.