When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
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.
The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I have an interest in politics, which maybe works its way into the songs in small, subtle ways.
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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.
I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from.
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.
My skills are musical, not lyrical.
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.