Are You Writing Songs From Scratch?

I usually start from scratch because if I find that I have a bucket of half finished songs, I don't finish any of them. The same lyrical concept might be spread across four or five songs and it might be lyrics that are kind of pulled from each one. So more often than not, I like to start every song from scratch. One of the moments that I love the most doing this for a living is when the culmination of months or years of work, of failed experiments coalesce in a song that ends up being on the record Or, in this case, being the single.