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I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

I've always been crazy for the American songbook.