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I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

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.

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and all these words that told a story would come out. There's one Bon Iver song called 'Blood Bank' that is more representative of an older lineage of songs, which I like and I sort of miss. But it just doesn't happen anymore for me.