Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.
As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.
Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.
I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.
All my collaborations happen in different ways. Sometimes it's through a chance meeting at a festival or event, while others can happen just off the back of me liking their music and reaching out.
If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.
I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.