“The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.”
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One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
