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I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

Sometimes you might get inspired by something, write about it, then later that lyrics sounds better on another beat. That's happened a few times. Like 'Dance Wiv Me' - those lyrics didn't start on that beat.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

I'll hear a beat and think, 'How can I make this a banger?' I'll write the lyrics on my phone or on a piece of paper, and either way, it's going to be a slapper.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.