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I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

That's what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.