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Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

What I've learned over the years is that the craft of songwriting is trying to take the personal and make it universal - or in the case of telling a story, taking the universal and making it personal.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.