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Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

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 would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

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.

I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

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.

Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you're thinking, like, 'This thing is going to come to me.'

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

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.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.