Hey Bill, big fan of your songwriting :) Could you elaborate your growth as a songwriter? What do you think made the biggest difference in improving your abilities? (Or I guess equally important, did you find anything to not help at all? haha)
when i was much younger i wrote instrumental music only. then i wrote lyrical music. then i tried to figure out how the entire universe really works (which i actually figured out and forgot simultaneously, which i am still doing, simultaneously ever since) then i decided i wanted to get back into songwriting but my mind was melted (the universe melted it, etc) so i knew i would ultimately be stronger but also weaker at first (due to melted mind) so after a few years of helplessness, i finally decided that any starting point would have to be legitimate, so i started writing the absolute worst / weirdest stuff imaginable, on purpose, just to get started. and i discovered many magical things happening. then i recorded some of it, but i prefered to keep writing more and more and more. then i realized holy crap i'm writing much faster than i'm recording, so i recorded some more. but then i wrote much much much more. then i trained myself to write in a more structured way, rather than just starting from beginning to end crazy style. then i wrote much much more. then i combined the normal catalog with the weird catalog. then i realized holy crap i've written way way too much to ever record. so i wrote more, non-stop, for about a year and a half, this time with a cataloging system of all the existing ideas and fragments, and i was able to go through them and fix them / update them / improve them / fix them, etc. merging all the 'weird' techniques with the 'regular.' and generally got much stronger during that period, and rounded out my skills. then i decided to get them online, but then i realized, i almost forgot, videos are the trick to getting people to pay attention to the songs. so i learned how to make videos