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I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.