About songwriting

«Tell me about your songwriting process.

For me, songs are born with a guitar and my journal at my side. My various guitars have different voices and they function as my singing and writing partners. The unique qualities of a guitar’s voice have a real effect on what comes out. I don’t have a specific sound or formula that I rely on each time. The songwriting process is either really visceral, emotional, and immediate, where I sit down and write something from start to finish, or it’s an ongoing meditation that gets sculpted and re-sculpted. The latter method has more of the intellect involved. For instance, “Parameters” was a real vomiting of words, whereas a song like “Lag Time” was more of a process that I worked on for months. It represented the “Oh! I finally got the bridge!” kind of writing. »

Ani DiFranco, in Fretz Magazine (http://www.fretsmag.com/story.asp?sectioncode=52&storycode=8649)

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