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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.