When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.
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Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.
I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.
I think I'm very old-fashioned.
As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.
And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.
I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.
Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.
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