With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.
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I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
I don't really have a preferred genre. It's more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it.
I like to make songs that are based on concepts.
I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.
I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind.
I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.
For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.