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I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.

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 You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great.

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

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.

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.