I feel like my life is at its happiest when I don't have a looming deadline. There's some really groovy wonderful times, when I'm like, "I have a new piece, I'm excited about it, I'm reading all these books about it, but there's not a lot of time pressure, and I'm financially stable enough right now that I don't have to be trying to get another job. " But that's so rare.
Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.