Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.
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My self-editing process is intense.
I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.
I have writing songs on my own for about six years.
Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.
I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.
Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.
It doesn't take me long to write songs.
I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.