But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
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Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.
Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.
I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
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.
When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.