My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
From Van Morrison
I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
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