We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.
I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.
There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.
If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.
I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.
I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.
I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.