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Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

Fantasy is a demanding genre.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.

I really didn't think about song writing.