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I write most of my music in my house, which is like a tree house.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I write music visually.

Composing music is hard work.

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the songs. That's it. As a result, my guitar playing suffers pretty horribly.

The story of 'Libra Scale,' the storyline was created first, and then the music was created around the story line.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.

Studying James Fauntleroy, I learned it's okay to write a bad song. Just write another one the next day and hope that it's better.

Edinburgh is where I started. A lot of the remixes I made were done in my room there, and it was a good place for me to make music.

It's a job, and it's challenging. But I love music and creating. That's why I got into music.