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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn't make sense, I don't like the song.
What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.
Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.
What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.
Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.
