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I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.

I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I'm going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It's a kind of discipline.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.