Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
Every time I tried writing my own songs, they would come out very country. I couldn't fight it, and the more I listened to country music, the more I loved it, and it just became very natural.
The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.
The idea of travelling all over the world singing the same songs sounds like hell. How people like Tina Turner still do it with enthusiasm is beyond me.
When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in my sleep or just hanging out in a restaurant or something. Music just comes to me, and I'll start writing from there.
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