Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.
I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'
If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.