I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.
Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.
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.
Every time I tried writing my own songs, they would come out very country. I couldn't fight it, and the more I listened to country music, the more I loved it, and it just became very natural.
I think sometimes you are born with a song.
I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.
It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.
I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.