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When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

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 is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

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.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

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.