I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.
The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.
We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid. . . it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song.
I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up: 'I got things to do today, people to see, things to say. ' I wrote about a dozen verses for it, but no song needs to be that long unless you're Bob Dylan. So when we recorded it I started to tear it down to some of the lines I thought were the funniest.
We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.
If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
People are fed up with Labour for taking them for granted for far too long, they are fed up of too much spin, and the people of Dunfermline and West Fife have spoken for the rest of the country with their views on the Labour government.
When congress is in session no American is safe.
The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.