When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.
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From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.
I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.
I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.
I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.
I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.
I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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