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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.
I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.
Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.
I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
