Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.
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Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.
It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.
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.
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
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.
The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.
Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.