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Which comes first for you as a songwriter,
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Which comes first for you as a songwriter,
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the music or the lyrics?
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I think for me it more comes as a general idea.
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And my favorite thing about songwriting is that it's so spontaneous and unpredictable what's going to hit me first.
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Whether it's going to be a general thought.
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Like for example, you know,
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I'll be going through something.
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When I wrote the song Love Story,
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that's a song I wrote sitting on my bedroom floor bedroom floor
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because I liked a guy and my parents didn't want me to date him.
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So I got this idea in my head,
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it just popped into my head,
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you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles and my daddy said,
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stay away from Juliet.
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I didn't know where in the song that was going to fit
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but I just started there and I built out from there.
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It's crazy how the fastest songs that I write end up being my favorites.
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The ones that just happen in just a surge of idea,
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a surge of inspiration.
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It's usually something I'm going through at the time.
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It's very hard for me to come up with just some random metaphor for a situation
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if I'm not going through it or haven't recently just gone through it.
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But I think when I was growing up,
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my mom talks in metaphor a lot.
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And so I think I grew up just understanding metaphor and just kind of loving that,
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how you could take something you're going through and speak about it in a different way that
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applies how you're feeling to something completely different but connects it.
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So I think for me it starts as an idea and a feeling and an emotion.
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Yeah.
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We had a lot of questions about the process from budding songwriters who submitted questions
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that are big fans of yours from Buffalo and a bunch of different places.
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And I mean, we were wondering,
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is there one favorite part of the songwriting process that you have?
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I mean, is it when you get that idea or
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when you're sitting on the floor in the bedroom or when you're in the studio?
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There are several moments in a song,
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and I won't finish a song if I don't have these moments,
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where you go, ooh, ooh,
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ooh, ooh, ooh, like after you write a line.
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And it's always that same feeling of like,
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oh, that's exactly what I meant.
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But if you're in a co-writing session,
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I'm always the one who will be sitting there for a second
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and then I'll say a line and if it's that moment where you're just like,
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that's the one, that's the line,
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I have to have about four or five of those lines in a song for me to put it on a record.
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Like lines where I'm just like, yes.
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So that's my favorite part is then
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when the song goes into its phase of being recorded and then being put on an album.
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And when you're playing it for people for the first time,
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when it comes across those lines that you really feel are like,
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I don't know, like zingers or like say it really well.
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I love watching people's reactions if it comes across.
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Like if they get those lines,
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I'm like, yes, I knew it.
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We'll get back to the co-writing thing in a second because there were some questions about that as well.
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But here's another question.
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This is from Music Maniac in Los Angeles.
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You've said you're already writing for the next record.
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Can you tell us anything about it?
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Well, yeah.
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For me, I never really switch the writing switch off.
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It's always on.
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Because I kind of have always felt like to make an album
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that I am proud enough of to give to my fans and say,
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here, allow this into your life,
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it has to be two to two and a half years of writing.
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and that way you know you have your best stuff
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because I'm so tough on myself I drive myself insane writing records
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and albums because it's like I'll write like 40 to 50 songs
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and then 13 or 14 make it that's a lot of paring it down
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and making sure you're getting to the best stuff yeah um
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so for me it takes a while and um I've been writing ever since I stopped writing the last album.
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And there's been a lot that's happened.
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And I never really talk about my personal life,
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but I write about it.
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So that's basically what the album is about, as always.
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Yeah.
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The unreleased thing was something that came up a lot,
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and one of the top voted questions was about,
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you know, would you ever make a CD of your unreleased songs?
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It's from Tay Swift Fearless in Missouri.
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But, I mean, what happens to those songs that don't make it to the album?
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And, you know, would you ever release some of the songs you wrote,
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especially when you were younger, like 14, 15?
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Well, I'm very, I'm obsessed with the latest song that I've written.
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I'm very guilty of that because like my favorite thing is always the newest thing that I've written.
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But lately I've become a little more self-aware because I had this song
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that I wrote when I was 16 and it's called Sparks Fly.
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And I played it in a few shows,
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these little bar shows when,
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you know, when I was playing to crowds of like 40
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and 50 people and being psyched about that many people showing up.
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And I played it a few times and it got on the internet
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and when I was putting together the Speak Now album,
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the fans just kept saying over and over again,
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sparks fly, we want this to be on the record.
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And so I went back and I revisited it and I kind of rewrote some things and updated it.
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And when we put it out as a single,
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it's been one of the fastest rising songs we've had on the record.
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It kind of taught me a lesson about the old stuff,
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maybe possibly being good enough to put on new projects.
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Yeah.
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I'm sure there's a lot of people that would love to hear some of that stuff.
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Let's move on to some of the released songs.
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This is a question from Cookie13cupcake.
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This is in the United Kingdom.
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This is going to be a long one.
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All right.
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So out of all your released songs,
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which song took the longest to write?
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I think that the song Sparks Fly,
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the fact that it technically was started when I was 16
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and ended up on an album in sort of a different form in 2010,
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that took a while for it to turn into what it was going to be.
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So I'd say that was probably the longest developing song
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that I've ever put out because most of and especially having written this entire new record without any co-writers,
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it all happened really fast because I'm very impatient.
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Like, if I don't have a song finished,
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I'll obsess over it, I won't sleep that night,
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and I'll just edit constantly to the point where I can't focus on a conversation,
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and everyone around me is annoyed because they're like,
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clearly you're working on something, just finish it.
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So that one was a long time to kind of get where it needed to be.
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Cool.
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So let's talk about that co-writer thing for a second.
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As you mentioned, this This album was all you,
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as far as for Speak Now.
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But you do often work with co-writers.
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How do you decide if you're going to write a song with a co-writer or whether you're going to tackle it yourself?
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Well, there are a bunch of different circumstances that could bring about a co-write.
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If I'm writing for somebody else's project,
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that's always exciting for me.
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I love to put myself in somebody else's shoes and think about their style of music,
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incorporating their storyline, what they're feeling.
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It's really fun for me to do that.
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So I love, you know, writing for other people.
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And then, you know, if I'm working on an idea,
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but there's like a stopping point where I can't really figure out like where this chorus is going
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or if my hunch is right about the hook or things like that,
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if there's a definite stopping point,
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I'll bring it to a writer that I trust or a writer that I admire and just ask them what they think.
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A lot of times, co-writing,
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I write really well with people who don't even play instruments or sing
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because a lot of times my best co-writers are just really great at giving advice.
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Like, do you think this course is too long?
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Yes.
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Like, thank you.
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Yeah.
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Is there anybody you're working with right now that you could talk about?
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Yes.
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For me, since I write so much and I don't know what's going to end up on the record,
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I never want to say,
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well, wrote with this person.
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Because then what if it doesn't make it on the record?
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And then writing for some other people's projects,
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in which case I feel weird talking about it because it's like their project.
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So yes, but yeah.
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This was a popular, a lot of votes for this question.
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This is from Quadratic Formula in Michigan.
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It's appropriate for the Google.
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Wow.
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Do you sing your own songs in the shower?
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Yeah.
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Awesome.
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That's great.
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Do you have any sort of favorite place for writing songs?
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No, actually.
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I kind of have become...
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You have to adapt yourself to a million different places to write when you're always on the road because I just...
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I don't have the luxury of saying,
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well, I have to be in this certain room at this certain part of town and it has to be,
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you know, all one color tone and there has to be smart water in there.
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You know, like it's just you're never ever anywhere for more than two and a half seconds.
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So, you So I've written songs in airport bathrooms on paper towels.
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I've written songs...
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What song was on a bathroom towel at one point?
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Oh, it hasn't come out yet.
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Oh, okay.
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In the bus bunk, you'll wake up in the middle of the night
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and you'll have this idea and then so you write it and you're up at 4 a.m or...
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I get awakened by song ideas all the time.
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And it's just, it's like I wake up and I'm just like, oh, great.
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Because I know I won't forget,
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I won't remember it in the morning.
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So you have to record it.
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And then it's this whole thing where you check your phone and it's like mumbling and you don't understand.
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You thought it was great at the time.
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Yeah, actually, one of our Googler questions was about you recording songs into your cell phone.
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Is that something that you do regularly?
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Yeah, the ideas always end up in my phone because it has a great recording thing in there.
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And, you know, for me,
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it's like, you just write wherever, whenever you can.
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And that's been really fun for me,
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because sometimes I'll walk into a hotel room and I'll be like,
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I've been here, I wrote back to December here.
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Like, it's fun, because you have these memories of writing songs all over the world.
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Yeah.
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Cool.
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So I know a lot of your songs are very personal songs,
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and a lot of your fans are very interested in that stuff.
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But this one came from Michaela Kay in South Florida.
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Has any guy asked you not to write a song about him before you went on a date?
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Not at that point in the relationship.
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Because at that point, they're thinking that,
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you know, I would never have any reason to write a bad song about them.
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And then it's when, know,
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when they start to, you know,
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treat me in a way that wouldn't reflect well on them in a song,
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if I were to be honest about it.
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Oh, okay, yeah.
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I've had a guy be like,
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you're not going to write about this, are you?
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I'm like, yeah, I am.
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I think that's interesting.
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That's a point in a relationship
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that you would have to have is this is the part
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where I tell her not to write a song about me, you know?
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Well, and you'd think that they would decide that before asking me on the date,
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or before we become a couple,
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or before all this stuff happens.
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But it only occurs to him when it occurred to him that it wouldn't be a good song.
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I see.
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Do you always write about people that you know?
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Yeah, because I feel like in a song,
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I love it when a song is a story, and the story develops and my favorite stories have really beautiful characters,
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and I feel like you can most accurately describe a character if you know them.
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One of my favorite songs that I've ever put out is called 15,
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and it's about my freshman year of high school,
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and it kind of chronicles my best friend Abigail and me
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and the way that we went through our freshman year of high school and the lessons we learned.
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And that's kind of how I like to tell a story,
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from the point of view of really knowing what you're talking about and knowing where you're coming from because you were there.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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- 曲作りのプロセス (songwriting process)
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