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There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

I have a whole lot of songs.

I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.

I don't really write songs anymore.

I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.