I'm A Kind Of Hard-wired Pessimist. I

Well, As Anyone Who Actually Writes Knows, If You Sit Down And Are Prepared, Then The Ideas Come. There's A Lot Of Different Ways People Explain That, But, You Know, I Find That If I Sit Down And I Prepare Myself, Generally Things Get Done.

I Write A Lot, And Very Often I Write A Couple Of Lines That Are Particularly Revealing In Some Kind Of Way. And Then As A Few More Lines Get Added And A Piece Gets Added, Eventually The Song Pretty Much Takes Over And You Can't Really Find A Way To Change Those Things.

The Way I Take In The World Is By Seeing It; That Is Very Much Evident In The Songs That I Write.

If I'm Hanging Around Too Much, My Wife And Kids Say, 'hey, Why Don't You Go Downstairs And Start A New Novel?'

I Write Songs From The Point Of View I Had At A Time;i'm Not Tryingto Write Songs From A Young Person's Point Of View.that Only Ends In Disaster.