There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.
When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people.
When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.
There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.