It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.
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.
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.
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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.
Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.