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I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

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.

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

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