It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
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It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.
Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.
If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.
When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.
Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.