Q: I think I kind of understand your system now of using random number generators to decide what to work on. But when you were starting out, how did you generate song topic ideas and decide which ones were worth actually writing?
A: there was a point where i was so desperate i knew i just needed to try anything. because i knew i could find good songs from any starting point, and i needed some practice anyway. so a lot of my early songs were either about the desire to write songs, or maybe just complete nonsense, or at least they start with complete nonsense, but the good news is i found that if you let your guard down and use the nonsense in the first few lines, it often transforms easily into something meaningful for the next part. by the way, i never used randomization to decide how to start a song. i've only used it to decide which songs to finish, record, and release