“I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.”

“I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, ”