We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.
I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.
Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.
As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
I've always been a writer who does simplistic, simple melodies. But I think it works.
I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.