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I don't really write songs anymore.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I've always been able to come up with the goods.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

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.