Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.
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There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.
Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done.
The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.
When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.
There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.
Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.