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The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

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've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,' and 'Blue Sky' are happy songs. That's the way I wrote them: have-fun tunes to make you feel good.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.