The hardest part about writing a song is coming up with something to write about. Once I know what I want to write about, I can grab my mighty Moleskine notebook and just keep at it until the song is done. I write, ponder, look things up, rewrite, edit, rewrite some more… I don’t like being stuck in front of a computer too much when I’m writing, so I prefer the old-fashioned way with a pen and a notepad. Usually it’s a somewhat chaotic and messy process, and the result ends up looking like in the picture below. Sometimes I like the result and sometimes I don’t, but that’s how it goes.
My notepad
Sometimes I have these flashes of inspiration where an idea pops up in my head and I know exactly what I want to say and more or less how to say it, and it’s all just a matter of writing it down on paper. I had an idea like that yesterday and wrote a song from start to finish in about 15 minutes. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen very often. How great it would be if I could do that every time…
I don’t have much music available online yet. There’s some old stuff on my MySpace page, but that’s it. I’m traveling in Spain and writing some new stuff right now, but once I get back home I will record some new songs and put them up online.
