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People often ask me how I write songs. Honestly, there’s no one method, so I couldn’t walk you through it even if we had all the time in the world. Sometimes lyrics come first, sometimes music. Some songs take thirty minutes to write, others take years. Some are grim chores and others feel like they just fell out of the pocket of a coat I haven’t worn in a while, like a slumbering twenty-dollar bill. I can tell you what it feels like in the songs, though. Songs are part homemade diorama, part gerbil maze, and part eighties music video—location, story arc, and cinematic container. You build all the tiny props inside so lovingly and sometimes they just aren’t to scale, so you have to start over, and it’s crushing. There are tantrums, tears.
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