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I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

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 enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

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

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.