How do you use your acting experience to help write songs?

How do you use your acting experience to help write songs?

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Poetry at its best distills the thing you want to say to the minimum number of words. If you can find the essence in a word, if you can say one word that conveys your meaning. You're doing minimal work like an actor. Does a lot of stuff in rehearsal, and then gradually he sees that he doesn't need to do all that. And finally does the thing that conveys everything as simply and efficiently as possible.