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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

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

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.