Q: Bill, I'm having a songwriting crisis (again). I seem to periodically flit between complicated chords, interesting harmony and trying to write geoundbreaking crazy stuff and just simple diatonic stuff with powerful melodies, more focused on the emotional conveyance - squeezing as much emotion out of a simple idea as possible, rather than trying to convey something super-interesting and harmonically spicy. I have about 15 full tracks I want to record for some kind of release, but they're all so different - some are pretty wild and others are just 3 chord ABABCB style things. Is it wise to try to release them anyway as they are, or do you think that kind of thing won't sound cohesive. I can't tell which path I wanna go down and I'm panicking
A: you won't know the answers to any of these things until you start doing it. maybe to lower the stakes, you could try something much much much shorter. that's a weird trick that i don't hear about too many other people doing and yet it was the only thing that seemed to work for me