It's actually harder to write a fun song.
The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.
One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.
So I wanna see all of you making out during this song.
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
I made my first complete song when I was 9.
You've got to really know your song, inside and out.