[fumetas]

For me, the most important thing when it comes to songwriting is to leave any internal or external pressures behind, as that is something that hits the quality of you music right in the face.

My approach is to let the music flow by itself, which means that I can spend up to several weeks or even months without writing a song (but playing everyday) only to find myself writing 3,4 or 5 decent songs in a row, having, all of a sudden, plenty of ideas and melodies in my head.

I don't know if this happens to you, but for me, the creative process usually starts in the same way: I'm playing my guitar or piano and suddenly one of the chords or single notes that I play just sounds different to me, as if it was a totally new chord or note that sounds so good and "fresh" to my ears that makes me somehow "follow" that "new sound" and see where does it lead me to.

Like Bob Dylan supposedly said once, "the song is there, somewhere, and I just need to find it". That's pretty much the way it works for me.

I know there are more convential ways to write a song, but I think that the let-the-song-pop-up-by-itself-rule is quite an interesting one.