I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.
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People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.
In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.
But I always loved songs with great lyrics.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.