How does your thought process start when you're making a new song? Anything in particular that's important? Or do you just start putting notes on paper?
the original idea occurs unexpectedly. never can expect when or where. so whenever that happens, i say 'holy crap, there it is.' and then document it. used to use paper for that but now i use text and audio files. the next step beyond that would be to play detective and ask as many question as possible to try to figure out what needs part needs to exist next. and then ultimately that part needs to spontaneously create itself just as the first part did