You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.
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I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.
When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people.
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.
There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.
Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.