Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
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When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.
People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.
I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.
I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.
When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.
There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.
Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.