But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.
Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.
At times I make music, but in private.
My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.
I don't want to work on a musical if I'm not the lyricist.
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
I used to listen to a lot of music in my studio - all the time. But as far as the music that interplays with my work, what I've done and still do is keep a lyric book and song title. The material typically comes from Eartha Kitt, Betty Davis, Donna Summer, Whitney Houston.
I just want to be in the studio 24/7. Even if I'm not working on a song right then, just sit in the studio. That's what I love.