In all I had about twenty songs to select. I was fortunate that the writing was clearly superior on  half of them and the arrangements were superior on a couple more. This made it easy to choose.

Also, It was pointed out to me that a number of the songs were very sad. So although these songs were well written and may have meant a great deal to me on more of a visceral level, I could see that they would be in conflict with the majority of the songs that were more uplifting and inspirational.