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It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.

I love hard singing.

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

The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.