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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I've written some really bad songs and I've had some bad performances.

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.