I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses.
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I don't really write songs anymore.
Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didn't want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.
It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.
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