There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.
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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.
I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.