I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.
It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.
If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.
A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.
You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.