There's some songs you write like you would write for a four- or five-piece band. But there are times when you start writing and you can immediately hear the full band.
'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.
I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.
The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
Songwriting is therapeutic for me.
I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest...
Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.
I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.
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if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
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