I always liked to make something creative.
I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.
Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all.
You don't know where you're going.
There's many possibilities for anything.
You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.