When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.
I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.
Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.
The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In fact, I'm usually trying to avoid saying something too directly, because usually that rings false anyway.
