Do all the harmonic extensions implied throughout your songs just materialize while improvising, or are you thinking "this needs to be a big V7b9#9 sound" and writing lines and aux keys figures to suit that?  It just feels like there's a logic to your idiosyncratic bananas harmonic sensibilities over the course of a song, and I'm curious how premeditated  it all is in your composition/recording process.
it's composed the same way as the words in your sentences. you intuitively know which words to use