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My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.