People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.
Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.
It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.
Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.
People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.
I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.
I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.