I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.
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.
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.
As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
Most of my songs make fun of myself.
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.
Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didn't want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.