Remember why you started writing songs

- [Instructor] Speaking of remembering, … I think it is extremely important every once in a while … to remember why you started writing songs … in the first place. … Very few of us start writing songs … because we want to make money. … We write songs because we're moved to do it. … Something in our lives brought us to a point … where we absolutely, positively had to create something … to memorialize whatever it was we were going through … or thinking about. … So, although it's important to think … of songwriting holistically and to look … at moving forward and understanding the business, … remembering why we actually started writing songs … can be a great way to recenter ourselves … and remember what's important. … …