With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless you're writing a song and there's an exact scenario that you're trying to write a song for.
Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.
I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.
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.
When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.
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.
I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.
When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.