Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
We've written something like 900 songs in all.
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.
Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
We became the songs we wrote.
We influence singing but never really songwriting.
It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.
I don't write songs.