Skylar Grey

letting it flow, almost like I'm not writing it, like I'm channeling it or something, that's better.

The songs that take less effort tend to be the better songs.

And the songs that I slave over to try to get them perfect and overthink, they end up doing nothing.

Yeah.

No, it makes total sense.

I write stuff in the shower.

I write stuff when I'm cooking dinner.

It's not like go into a studio from this hour to this hour and write a song like it never works for me to do that.

So it'll just be random like this new album I'm putting out.

There's a song called Motivation.

I remember it came to me when I was standing outside the vet's office when my dog was getting surgery.

on her ACL or whatever they call it in dog world um I was just like pacing outside during her surgery and this like song started coming to me did she have to do that thing where they cut the bone yeah yeah I had a dog she had to have both her back legs done that way she blew out both of her it was brutal the recovery was brutal it's horrible yeah she was also a puppy so she had like puppy energy and it just we had to sedate her and it was it was awful it was awful

I usually just let ideas come to me.

I take a lot of voice notes in my phone, or I'll write down lyric ideas that come to me.

And then I need to be better about making time for it, because when I do make time to go in and be creative, it usually does...

There's a balance.

It's like I can't force it, but I also can't be lazy and just avoid it completely.

You know?

So I try to balance that out.

I started it.