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There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

There are no rules when I compose songs.

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you're doing, not just who you're doing.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

There are no rules to writing a song.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

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.