I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.
It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A. M. , would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.