Thinking about the difference between song writing as a craft and writing for yourself, as an artist. In the latter case It sometimes isn’t enough that the song is good, it’s almost more important that the song is lined up with your voice and your larger aesthetic perspective. Whether you wrote the song or not, as an artist, you have to believe what you are singing/saying and it has to feel natural. Otherwise it’s like wearing a nice suit that doesn’t fit— there’s just something silly about it.