writing a month? do that! But that’s just not in me. [Mike] Man, it’s more like starting a batch of Then, there are some friends that I write with “There’s this song that I feel like you really ‘get,’
songs. So, I’ve got probably 25 songs going. often, like Benji Cowart. I love him so much. He you know? And I would love to write with you.”
Over the last year, we’ve completed seven or is a great songwriter and his pursuit of the Lord That kind of thing.
eight of them. It’s like there’s this constant (flow). is so neat, too. I shared that song I mentioned Sometimes it’s some idea that somebody gives to him and he was like, “That song is so special. [WM] There is so much that you pour into your
me, and sometimes it’s an idea that shows up It’s like it just came right out of your heart!” writing... what are you doing with the songs
that I’m hanging on to. Sometimes I finish the And I was like, “I know man, I just wish I could that you don’t record?
idea by myself, and those are the ones that are do that all the time.” But then, if we could do the best, when it happens real naturally. There that, we would make it something that it’s not [Mike] You know, sometimes they’ll stick
was a song I was writing that I didn’t really know supposed to be, you know? There is an agony around and they’ll go to another song-write and
I was going to write. One time, I forgot to get in songwriting for me! Someone asked me, “Do see if you can make them something you really
off of the bus and the bus driver had to go gas you like writing songs?” I was like, “No, I like want to record more. Or, sometimes they go by
up after we go to the venue. The driver took having written songs!” Writing songs actually the wayside. There are times we’ll demo them
off, and I was in the back lounge somewhere drives me crazy! and give them to folks at the label and they will
I couldn’t hardly talk right because he was like
a hero to me. At the end, I shared with him,
in Indiana. We were seeing a whole lot of corn,
pitch them somewhere. I have not had a lot of
you know? I was looking out the window at Sometimes I will bring ideas to friends that I cuts like that. Most of what we write, we record.
these corn fields, and this whole thing just write with all the time, and other times I’ll have Sometimes we’ll find a song to record that’s
came out. I just sang it in the back lounge. I was an idea of a specific person I want to take an not even ours. Like the first song on the new
like “Dude, I wish I could do that on purpose?” I idea to. I played at a Songwriter Round the record is a song I didn’t even write any on. My
wish I could just like go in a room and mean to other day with Stephen Curtis Chapman and buddy, Zach Williams, had a song left over from
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