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The story behind every song is individual to itself.

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.

When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there's another song that I have to write in response to that song. Each is like its own separate feeling, its own separate universe.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

Each song has its own life.

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.