Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.
I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.
My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.
I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.
As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.
I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of. . . I guess 'hope' is the right word?
It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.
Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character. . . Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.
I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.