Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.
Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.