What inspires you to use strange time signatures in some of your songs, such as how more than a dream's verses are in 7/4?
sometimes it's just about how much time you want to pass. the first line is what it is, so we know that has to be like a 3/4, and then we try the whole thing in 3/4 and we notice "that doesn't feel like enough time passing in between the lines. i just want more time to pass" so we make the gap 4 beats long instad of 3. and that's how that happens. Same as determining how long each shot should be, for a scene of a movie. sometimes 3 seconds is too long. 1 second is too short. but maybe 2 seconds is just right