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Patrick Hetherington (Parcels)
Patrick Hetherington of Parcels (https://www.parcelsmusic.com) says that the urge to write usually strikes when he's had some kind of new input, but then he needs distance from that input to be able to process it and write about it. And a g
Molly Tuttle
It's the return of Molly Tuttle (https://www.mollytuttlemusic.com)! (The first time I interviewed Tuttle was in 2021, when I interviewed (https://www.songwritersonprocess.com/blog/katiemolly) her and Katie Pruitt.) Tuttle won the GRAMMY for
Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5)
I cannot imagine a world where Scott McCaughey is not writing. But first, some background. He was an auxiliary member of R.E.M. from 1994 to 2011, working with them in the studio and playing with them live. He founded The Baseball Project a
Dev Hynes (Blood Orange)
Dev Hynes (https://www.bloodorange.net) had me at the bookshelves. All those bookshelves behind him on our Zoom interview, rising to the ceiling and stuffed with books. Small wonder, then, that Hynes works best in daily consumption mode rat
Will Taylor (Flyte)
There's a difference between wanting to write and needing to write. For Will Taylor of Flyte (https://www.flytetheband.com), it's usually a need. Taylor says that he doesn't write every day, but instead writes after an accumulation of exper
Meg Duffy (Hand Habits)
"I write the most when I'm supposed to be doing something else because it tricks me into thinking that songwriting is rebellious," Meg Duffy (aka Hand Habits (https://www.handhabits.band)) told me. "It feels like I get to choose to do it."
Hannah Cohen
The theme of today's podcast is nourishment. It dawned on me a few minutes into my conversation with Hannah Cohen (https://www.thehannahcohen.com) that when she said proper nourishment was critical to her writing process, she was being lite
Lzzy Hale (Halestorm)
Ed Note: Lzzy Hale has collaborated with Mark Morton (Lamb of God) in the past. I co-authored Mark's new book Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir (https://www.amazon.com/Desolation-Heavy-Memoir-Mark-Morton/dp/0306830981/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12DERTW
Gordi
You think you're busy? You're not busy. Sophie Payten (known professionally as Gordi (https://www.gordimusic.com)) is busy. She's a songwriter AND a physician. On this episode, we discuss how she finds time to do anything. We also explore h
Anamanaguchi
"I see no point in being bored. I just don't understand the concept. So I'm always looking for things to occupy my time and get me excited," Peter Berkman of Anamanaguchi (http://www.anamanaguchi.com) told me. Berkman actually told me this
Cody Jinks
Cody Jinks (https://codyjinks.com) had me at "I could talk about books forever." He estimates that he reads 80-100 books a year. All that reading leads to a lot of writing: songs, poetry, a journal, and an almost completed memoir. Oh and he
Mary Chapin Carpenter
"Songwriting is about being awake to something you've never thought of or a way of thinking about something you've never experienced before," Mary Chapin Carpenter (https://www.marychapincarpenter.com) says on the pod. The five-time GRAMMY
Indigo De Souza
I'm a huge Indigo De Souza (https://www.indigodesouza.com) fan, so I had a great time on this episode! We went deep into her songwriting process and discussed, among other things, how moving from western North Carolina to Los Angeles change
Jade Bird
"I'm realizing how neurotic my process is as I'm talking to you," Jade Bird (https://www.jade-bird.com) said, laughing, during our conversation. Indeed, Bird is pretty specific about her writing ritual, which can be intense: she usually tak
Purity Ring
At some point I told Megan James and Corin Roddick, who compose Purity Ring (https://purityringthing.com), that this was the bizarro episode: I'd mention something that a lot of songwriters do, and they told me that they actually did the op
The Swell Season
Glen Hansard (https://glenhansard.com) andMarkéta Irglová (https://marketairglova.com) of The Swell Season (https://theswellseason.com) feel no need to write every day. They both wait patiently for a spark. "I have no worries if I don't wri
John Gourley (Portugal. The Man)
"I'm always chasing that ADHD thing: whatever it tells me to do, I just do it," John Gourley of Portugal. The Man (https://portugaltheman.com) told me. This episode hit hard. I used to be a middle school special education teacher. I taught
Laura Stevenson
Laura Stevenson (https://www.laurastevenson.net) returns to the pod! This was an easy decision to have her on again (the first time was 2011 (https://www.songwritersonprocess.com/blog/2011/06/15/laura-stevenson-and-the-cans)) because I love
Cautious Clay
Cautious Clay (https://cautiousclay.com) and I spent the first ten minutes of this episode talking about the role that painting plays in his creative process. Then a few minutes later, the topic turned to the through line between basketball
Shura
This episode with Shura (https://www.shura.gg) marks a first: we managed to draw a through line between Marcella Hazan's bolognese sauce (https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015181-marcella-hazans-bolognese-sauce) and the songwriting proce
Orla Gartland
"The more I do this, the less I want to understand where it comes from," Orla Gartland (https://www.orlagartland.com) says on the pod. Like most songwriters, Gartland likes to walk as a part of her songwriting process. She'll usually listen
Sunflower Bean
It's the return of Nick Kivlen and Julia Cumming of Sunflower Bean (https://www.sunflowerbeanband.com)! We had so much fun in 2022 (https://www.songwritersonprocess.com/blog/2022/sunflowebean) that we had to do it again. Kivlen says, "One o
Matt Gervais (The Head and the Heart)
"Without the labor, channeling can't happen," Matt Gervais of The Head and the Heart (https://theheadandtheheart.com) told me. He has stacks upon stacks of Mead notebooks to prove it, all the way back to when he was a kid. Gervais finds art
I'm With Her
When a band has seven GRAMMY wins and thirty-one GRAMMY nominations among them, they're a supergroup. So let's be clear: I'm With Her (https://imwithherband.com) is a supergroup. The trio of Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O'Donovan, and Sara Watkins a
Samantha Crain
"I need to have those times of being fully in bloom, then fully hibernating. That's how I get my best, most genuine work," Samantha Crain (https://www.samanthacrain.com) says. She's a seasonal songwriter who actively takes time not to write
Calum Hood (5 Seconds of Summer)
ED NOTE: here's my episode (https://www.songwritersonpodcast.com/ashton-irwin-5-seconds-of-summer/) with Hood's bandmate Ashton Irwin. It's about time a songwriter referenced the movie Lost in Translation, as 5 Seconds of Summer (https://5s
Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega (https://www.suzannevega.com) usually heads straight to the compost heap for song ideas. "I have a compost heap of at least 50 notebooks dating back many years, and I pull from those notebooks when writing a new album," Vega sa
Stefan Babcock (PUP)
"I assign too much personal value to my creative output. Too much of my self-worth is wrapped up in that process in a way that is unhealthy," Stefan Babcock of PUP (https://www.puptheband.com) told me. It's natural for an artist to attach s
Uwade
It's not easy being a songwriter. It's also not easy being a PhD student. I don't know how Uwade (https://www.uwade.com) is able to do both simultaneously. Uwade is in the first year of her PhD program in Classics at Stanford University, an
Tennis
Ed note: my new permanent intro and outro music is, in fact, the Tennis song "Need Your Love." Alaina Moore and Pat Riley of Tennis (https://tennis-music.com) are good friends of mine, which means this episode is more of a conversation than
