You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
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.
Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to move within a relationship. A song can kind of get the girl, for sure.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.
I can't write songs unless I am in love.
When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.