SONGWRITING

I get asked a lot about how I come up with my songs. A lot of people ask
me to write songs about them, or they tell me what they think would make a
great song. But thatʼs usually not how I get going on a song. An idea kind
of sticks with me for a few days, or a few weeks, or a few months even.
Then I start humming random tunes. Then if that same idea and tune stay
with me for a while, then I take it to the next step and get out my guitar and
start messing around. My mom always tries to write down and record when
I am doing this, because a lot of times I forget what I was working on and
then the idea dies. There are times when I pick up my guitar and the whole
song comes to me at once. Those actually end up being my favorite
originals.

I guess when you are a songwriter, you are really doing it all the time. A
bumper sticker may get me thinking, something a store clerk says may start
the process or even something that comes to me in a dream.

The truest thing I can tell you about songwriting is that LIFE IS FULL OF INSPIRATIONS!

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