Now I see it as worship to thank the Lord for each meal. It's such a simple thing, but it is a form of worship. I usually write at home on the piano. I like to work in a familiar environment. The lyrics and melody usually come to me at the same time, but usually only in snippets.
Singers have to sing the same songs over and over.
Sometimes it just gets old. I don't want to just sing a piece of music. I want to relive it by trying to remember what I was really feeling when I wrote the song. Last summer I sang at a camp in Oregon. It was for a bunch of teenagers.