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Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.

I'm very inspired by past music.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.