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I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were a lot of choices - writing songs was king.
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We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the writer tells us what it's about, and you're often disappointed.
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I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being in a song. So I tend to collect notes, and I set time aside to go to work and write songs.
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When midnight's done, and the day won't start, And all I ever gave you was a broken heart, It's hard to admit but it's easy to tell That evil is alive and well.
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Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
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It's been said that I formed The Wallflowers to hide my name but, really, I've always wanted to be in a band - right from the day my friends and I soundproofed a garage with bed-covers for our first rehearsal.
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I'm here on the blacktop, the sun in my eyes Women and Country on my mind
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Some people just can't get over their own hang-ups to listen to my music.
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I see myself as a traditionalist … I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in.
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If God is working I wish He’d say so Maybe He don’t live here anymore
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You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.
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Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.
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There's only one thing that's certain And that's everybody, everybody's hurting
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The trouble, doll Is not moving mountains, but Digging the ground that you're on
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It doesn't always have a shape, Almost never does it have a name, It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail, But evil is alive and well.
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I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.
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When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.