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I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.
When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an... →
It's amazing what some people read into songs.
All audiences should be slightly off balance.
I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.
I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.
I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.
The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.
You want the audience to be uncomfortable.
As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience.... →
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