Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are.
A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss.
I am not against songs in films. We come from an oral tradition of storytelling. I have grown up listening to epics in oral rendition and oral rendition always had music.
I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.
Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.
Lyricism was placed into my head in Ireland.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.
I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.
