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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.
I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
If I'm gonna stay in this world of comedy, then it has to be a really special character to me in a really smart piece of material.
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
