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Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.