I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.
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I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.
When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.
It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.
I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.
To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.
Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.
I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.