I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.
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That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'
Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.
It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.