There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.
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.
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.
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.
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.
Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.
When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.
When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.
On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.
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