It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.
The first song I wrote was the first song I remember thinking, "Well, maybe I can do something here." The very first one. By the second one I knew I could do something.
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.
But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.
I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.
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