I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
But I always loved songs with great lyrics.
I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now.
I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.
I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
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.