Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
BLACK FRANCISThe first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
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One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, “I just got done telling you no, there’s nothing to report.”
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That’s the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them.
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Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they’re in.
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A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
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I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
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This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.
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Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
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I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend’s driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
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If you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
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Everyone thinks I’m a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I’ll just flip ’em the bird!
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My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn’t how people are going to receive them, because they don’t know the code.
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You think you’ve made something really great, but there’s a reason why it’s not resonating the way some previous work did. But it’s not that easy to just replicate.
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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I’ll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y’know, just see where roads lead.
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I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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