but the rest of the song way later? Did you just read through your old notes and went "this is pretty darn good, I can use this"? And did you do the same for here comes the sun?
it's like a much much more meticulous and complicated version of that. i can write much faster than i can produce, so from 2008 to 2012 there was sort of a writing epidemic going on, where i just kept writing and writing and writing. not necessarily even finishing them. so in september 2012 i started gathering a chronological list of every song or partial song i had ever written, and then i started working little bits on each one. the same list continues to this day. So when it's time to record/produce and song/video, i have an elaborate writing/selection process where i write some brand new things first, add them to the list, then go through the entire list, pick out good candidates for the next production (i usually end up choosing about 25), then i do some additional writing on some of those, then finally i make my final selection. Then i continue writing that one to completion. The idea of casually finding a song, and just thinking 'oh this is good so i'll do it' seems hilarious to me. that's just not how it works. my mind has to go to full scale war with itself to settle on a song selection