I have to laugh to myself. I don't find it work to write music, because I enjoy it. I'd find an evening of bridge hard work because you have to think like hell, and at the end, you get nothing for it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.
If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.
For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.