I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.
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It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.
I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.
A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.
I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great.
Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.
I'm definitely still putting effort into my lyrics, for them to be emotional and tell a story.
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 stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.
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