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I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.
We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.
I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.
I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.
I'm working really hard to get the clarinet out of that hole, that Benny Goodman thing.
With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
