The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.
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Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.
Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.
The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.
That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you'd want to say.
My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.
Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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