I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.
I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.
You've got to really know your song, inside and out.
I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.
A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.
Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
I just sit down and write the best song for the best moment, and however it comes out, it is what it is.
The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.
Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?
I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.