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I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.

Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.