I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do.
Maybe that's what makes my stuff different, 'cause I write it all on the bass. I can't play but a few chords on the guitar, so the bass works just fine for me.
When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.
For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook - what I want the track to be about melodically - and then I'll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.
I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.
What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.
I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.
The only way for me to compose is intensively. To pick at it over a long period doesn't seem to work.
On the first two albums, I essentially began with lyrics and placed the music underneath or around the words.
